Nicola Griffith
1) Hild
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 546 pages : map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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...