01382cam a2200301 4500 287466336 TxAuBib 20170101120000.0 080211s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 93021824 9781416590880 1416590889 TxAuBib Gregory, Philippa. The wise woman / Philippa Gregory. Touchstone trade pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008. 520 p. ; 20 cm. First published in Great Britain in 1992 by Viking. "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." --Author's website: http://www.philippagregory.com/books/wise-woman/index.php. 20170101. Witches England Fiction. Social classes England Fiction. Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Fiction. Historical fiction. Love stories. Historical romances.