Hild: novel
โ Scribed by Nicola Griffith
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Macmillan Audio
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 421 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1427241198
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โฆ Synopsis
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...
โฆ Subjects
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