[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning request
- From: Anastasia Saridakis <anamatia81@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:16:52 -0700 (PDT)
Is this the book?
The wise woman
Gregory, Philippa.
Review
The author of the Wideacre trilogy offers another intense, absorbing tale, a
grisly drama of passion and witchcraft in 16th-century England. Growing up as
an ill-used apprentice to Morach, the much-feared wise woman of the moors, Alys
finds respite by joining an order of Catholic nuns. When young Lord Hugo and
his men burn the abbey to the ground during a drunken rampage, Alys is the only
one to escape; she flees back to Morach, consumed with guilt at having
abandoned her dying sisters. Summoned to minister to Lord Hugh, Hugo's father,
Alys soon finds herself deeply involved in the treachery and intrigue
surrounding the old man's attempts to have his son's marriage to the barren
Lady Catherine annulled. Attracted to Hugo despite his murderous past, Alys
begins to practice witchcraft in earnest to rid him of Catherine and become his
wife. Her spells work all too well: Catherine's long-awaited pregnancy ends
disastrously, and Hugo comes to love Alys, but in a sickly haze of
lust that provides no basis for marriage. Alys soon finds herself so sunk in
evil, so removed from God's love, that only a truly shocking gesture can bring
about her salvation. Gregory adeptly manipulates hair-raising horror and
mounting suspense, brilliantly evoking the period's turbulent atmosphere. Dou
ble day Book Club alternate. Copyright 1993 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Appeared in: Reed Elsevier Inc. (c) Copyright 2006, Cahners Business
Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
This new novel by the author of Wideacre (S. and S., 1987) and other popular
historical fiction profiles a woman versed in charms, conjuring, and
fortune-telling who nonetheless falls into catastrophic misfortunes time after
time. Escaping from an English convent, young Alys learns the arts of healing
and magic from the ``wise woman'' who takes her in. Her struggle to find an
independent life takes her among an array of characters, including a mediocre
lover, a sickly old man still very much in control of the lives around him, and
two challenging women: Marach and Mother Hildebrande. Gregory weaves a vivid
tapestry of life in the 16th century, including plenty of sex, as the narrative
strains toward a not-unexpected end. M.E. Chitty, Fairchild International Lib .
Inst . , Plainfield, N.J.Copyright 1993 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Appeared in: Reed Elsevier Inc. (c) Copyright 2006, Cahners Business
Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
If it is my liibrary has it. I can get it if you are stil interested
Tkae care
Anastasia
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