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The forestwife
By Tomlinson, Theresa
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-53108-750-3
- Publisher
- New York : Orchard Books, 1995.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 1995
Gr 6-9 Mary de Holt, 15, runs away from her uncle's manor to avoid marrying the elderly widower he has chosen for her, and her nurse, Agnes, follows. They take refuge in the endless, forbidding forest, and Mary finds it teeming with life-wretched folk on the run, defrocked nuns, and a mysterious prophetess, among others. Local lore tells of a fearsome witch, the Forestwife, who in truth is a woman skilled in herbs and potions who provides assistance to all those desperate enough to seek it. Agnes and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
