Hild : a novel
Griffith, Nicola
Hild : a novel / Nicola Griffith - First edition - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2013 - 546 p. : illus. & genealogical table ; 24 cm.
A 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.
9780374280871
2013022510
Hilda , of Whitby, Saint , 614 - 680 ----Fiction
Christian women saints----England----Whitby----Fiction
Christain saints----England----Northumbria (Region)----Fiction
Women----History----Middle Age, 500 - 1500----Fiction
Historical fiction
PS3557.R48935 / H55 2013
FIC GRI
Hild : a novel / Nicola Griffith - First edition - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2013 - 546 p. : illus. & genealogical table ; 24 cm.
A 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.
9780374280871
2013022510
Hilda , of Whitby, Saint , 614 - 680 ----Fiction
Christian women saints----England----Whitby----Fiction
Christain saints----England----Northumbria (Region)----Fiction
Women----History----Middle Age, 500 - 1500----Fiction
Historical fiction
PS3557.R48935 / H55 2013
FIC GRI
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