The Wise Woman: A captivating Tudor historical fiction novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Synopsis

Reissue of philippa gregory’s disturbing novel of passion and betrayal in tudor england. A haunting story of a woman’s desire in a time of turbulence. Alys joins the nunnery to escape hardship and poverty but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when henry viii’s wreckers destroy her sanctuary. With nothing to support her but her looks, her magic and her own instinctive cunning, alys has to tread a perilous path between the faith of her childhood and her own female power.