[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning request
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:17:40 -0500
That sounds like a great read! I shall eagerly await the time when it joins
the collection! Thanks, Stacey and Shanon.
Sue S.
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From: solsticesinger
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:30 AM
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It is the book. If you would scan it, I would really appreciate it, and, as
I said, I'll be happy to validate it.
Shannon
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From: Anastasia Saridakis
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:16 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning request
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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