Hild

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Label

Hild

Statement of responsibility

Nicola Griffith

Creator

• trueGriffith, Nicola
• Griffith, Nicola

Author

• Griffith, Nicola

Subject

• trueMedieval period (476-1492) -- 476 -- 1492
• trueCivilization, Medieval
• trueEngland
• FICTION / Historical
• FICTION / Literary
• trueGreat Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
• trueHilda, of Whitby, Saint, 614-680
• Hilda, of Whitby, Saint, 614-680 -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueLeadership in women
• Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Fiction
• trueWomen and nature
• trueWomen saints
• true7th century -- 601 -- 700
• trueAnglo-Saxon period (449-1066) -- 449 -- 1066
• trueBiographical fiction
• trueBisexual women
• trueChristian saints
• Christian saints -- England | Northumbria (Region) -- Fiction
• trueChristian women
• Christian women saints -- England | Whitby -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueBiographical fiction

Language

eng

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"--
• 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

Storyline

• trueSweeping

Tone

• trueAtmospheric

Writing style

• trueLush
• trueEngaging
• trueRichly detailed

Character

• trueComplex

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Illustrations

• maps
• genealogical tables

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3557.R48935

LC item number

H55 2013

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult