![]() ![]() She is also the co-editor of the Bending the Landscape series of anthologies. Memorial Award, the World Fantasy Award, Premio Italia, six Lambda Literary Awards, and others. ![]() ![]() In this vivid, utterly compelling novel, Nicola Griffith has brought the Early Middle Ages to life in an extraordinary act of alchemy, transporting the reader into a mesmerising, unforgettable world. Nicola Griffith has won the Washington State Book Award twice, the Nebula Award, the James Tiptree, Jr. The stakes are high - life and death - for Hild, her family and for all those who seek the protection of this strange girl who seems to see the future. Hild establishes herself at her uncle's side as the king's seer, and becomes indispensable - as long as all goes well for Edwin. ![]() But for now she has only the powerful curiosity of a child and the precarious advantage of a plotting uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, who will stop at nothing to beome king of the Angles. Hild is the king's youngest niece, with a glittering mind and natural authority, She is destined to become one of the pivotal figures of the early Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby. And they will kill you, one day' In seventh century Britain, a new religion is coming ashore while small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Your blood is that of the man who should have been king. 'Truly, truly remarkable' Karen Joy Fowler 'Extraordinary.resonates to many of the same chords as Beowulf, the legends of King Arthur, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones' Neal Stephenson 'You are a prophet and seer with the brightest mind in an age. ![]()
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