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Author:

Griffith, Nicola, author.

Title:

Hild / Nicola Griffith.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 546 pages : map, genealogical table ; 24 cm

Subject:

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.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Literary.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

"A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world--of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing human nature and predicting what will happen next--that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. She establishes herself as the king's seer. And she is indispensable--until she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, her family, her loved ones, and the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future. Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early medieval age--all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith's luminous prose. Recalling such feats of historical fiction as Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, Hild brings a beautiful, brutal world--and one of its most fascinating, pivotal figures, the girl who would become St. Hilda of Whitby--to vivid, absorbing life"-- Provided by publisher.
Daughter of a poisoned prince and a crafty noblewoman, quiet, bright-minded Hild arrives at the court of King Edwin of Northumbria, where the six-year-old takes on the role of seer/consiglieri for a monarch troubled by shifting allegiances and Roman emissaries attempting to spread their new religion.

ISBN:

0374280878 (hardback)
9780374280871 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)827256692

LCCN:

2013022510

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