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horror in the middle ages
Wise Woman is a brilliant,wickedly honest addition to the midieval genre. After reading this I had to read all of Philippa Gregory's novels. This is the "edgiest" of them . This novel breathlessly proceeds with nail-biting pace to it's ultimate conclusion. There are scenes from this book which are BURNED in my memory: a nightmare of Candlewax and perfidy,the wave of a dolls arm, the truth revealed as to a woman's real value in Midieval society. As dark as it is, Wise Woman is sometimes amusing.It is the laughter, however,of the nervous and the dammed. I highly recommend Wise Woman as a "midieval" turned upside down.

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Awful
A friend told me Gregory's work was good historical fiction but it is not!

This is just a Jackie Collins novel set in medieval England. Not only that, the "wise woman" is obviously based on a curious mix of traditional stereotypes of a witch and new-age info. Why go into details about the clothing and food and then appear to get your occult information from a Dennis Wheatley novel?

Not one of the characters is either interesting or likable. Worse still, you don't even hate them, you just end up not caring.

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A selfish, lying, unfaithful, scheming, ambitious 16 yr old!
I loved this book. What a real character, full of flaws. What a pretty 16 year old nun who suddenly finds herself in the real world in the time of Henry VIII might actually do. Not mature enough to make good decisions, selfish and wicked enough to wish people harm and definitely immature enough to not realize that there is a reaction to every action. Well done. I have waited a year of reading two books a month to find a book like this! Thank you Ms. Gregory for the tale of a central character so full and rich I stayed up all night reading to finish it.