{"product_id":"nicola-griffith-hild-2013","title":"Nicola Griffith: Hild [2013]","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eRecalling 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.","brand":"Griffith, Nicola","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52499359433043,"sku":"XV80374280871","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":52458634346835,"sku":"9780374280871","price":28.57,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/griffith-nicola-nicola-griffith-hild-2013-9780374280871-1208402148.jpg?v=1764486584","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/nicola-griffith-hild-2013","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}