The Wise Woman / Gregory Philippa / Книга на Английском (Gregory Philippa); Harpercollins, 2002

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. .This is the reissue of Philippa Gregory's disturbing novel of passion and betrayal in Tudor, England. This is 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. When she falls in love with Hugo, the feudal lord and another woman's husband, she dips into witchcraft to defeat her rival and to win her lover, but...

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780006514640
Автор(ы)	Gregory Philippa
Вес	0.45
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2002
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Harpercollins
Издательство	HarperCollins
Кол-во страниц	626
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	626
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкая бумажная
Тип обложки	мягкая