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092    |fF|aGRIFFITH 
100 1  Griffith, Nicola. 
245 10 Hild /|cNicola Griffith. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2013. 
300    viii, 546 pages :|billustration ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 00 Hilda,|cof Whitby, Saint,|d614-680|vFiction. 
650  0 Christian women saints|zEngland|zWhitby|vFiction. 
650  0 Christian saints|zEngland|zNorthumbria (Region)|vFiction. 
650  0 Women|xHistory|yMiddle Ages, 500-1500|vFiction. 
651  0 Great Britain|xHistory|yAnglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
       |vFiction.