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The award-winning author Nicola Griffith''s brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild.

In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king''s youngest niece, and she has a glimmering mind and a natural, noble authority. She will become a fascinating woman and one of the pivotal figures of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby.

But now she has only the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the worldof studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing her surroundings closely and predicting what will happen nextthat can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her.

Her uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belie

Hild

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 28 October 2014
      ISBN-13 9781250056092
      978-1250056092
      ISBN-10 1250056098
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      Historical Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The award-winning author Nicola Griffith''s brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild.

      In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king''s youngest niece, and she has a glimmering mind and a natural, noble authority. She will become a fascinating woman and one of the pivotal figures of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby.

      But now she has only the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the worldof studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing her surroundings closely and predicting what will happen nextthat can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her.

      Her uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belie

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