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Author:

Griffith, Nicola, author.

Title:

Hild / Nicola Griffith.

Edition:

1st Picador ed.

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 546 p. : map, geneal. chart ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Hilda,--of Whitby, Saint,--614-680--Fiction.
Hilda,--of Whitby, Saint,--614-680--Fiction.
Christian women saints--Whitby--Whitby--Fiction.
Christian saints--Northumbria (Region)--Northumbria (Region)--Fiction.
Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Fiction.
Christian saints--Northumbria (England)--Fiction.
Women--History--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--0-1066--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

FEB16.

Summary:

In seventh-century Britain, a new religion is coming ashore and small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Hild is the king's youngest niece, with a glittering mind and a natural authority. She is destined to become one of the pivotal figures of the Early Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby. But for now, she has only the powerful curiosity of a bright child and the precarious advantage of a plotting uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, who will stop at nothing to become overking of Angles. Hild establishes a place for herself at his side as the king's seer, and she is indispensable - as long as she doesn't lead Edwin astray. The stakes are high - life and death - for Hild, for her family, and, increasingly, for those who seek the protection of this strange girl who seems to see the future. Drawing from the few records history has left us, Nicola Griffith has brought the young Saint Hilda's harsh, but beautiful, world to vivd, absorbing life.

ISBN:

1250056098
9781250056092 (pbk.)

LCCN:

bl2014048739

Locations:

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)