How long does it take to read The Wise Woman?
The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory takes about 9 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 28 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 516 pages, about 141,900 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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 finds – as her cynical old foster-mother had advised – that magic makes a poor servant but a dominant master. Since heresy against the new church means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys’s danger is mortal. A woman’s powers are no longer safe to use!
Subjects: Fiction, History, Witches, Witchcraft, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Great britain, fiction
