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An excellent, lush, sweeping historical book about the climb of the most powerful woman of the center Ages: Hild. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A fresh religion is coming ashore; the old gods are attempting, their priests stressing. Hild is the king's youngest niece, and she's a glimmering head and a natural, noble authority. She'll become a fascinating woman and one of the pivotal statistics of the center Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby. However now she's only the powerful curiosity of a excellent child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the globe - of learning nature, of complementing cause with impact, of observing her surroundings meticulously and predicting exactly what will happen next - that can seem to be uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. Her uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, plots to become over-king of the Sides, ruthlessly using every tool at his removal: blood, bribery, perception. Hild establishes a place for herself at his aspect as the king's seer. And she is vital - unless she should ever lead the ruler astray. The stakes are life and fatality: for Hild, on her behalf family, on her behalf loved ones, and for the increasing amounts who seek the coverage of the peculiar girl who is able to browse the world and see the future. Hild is a young woman at the heart of the assault, subtlety, and mysticism of the early Middle Ages - all of it brilliantly and effectively evoked by Nicola Griffith's luminous prose. Working from what little historical record is extant, Griffith has taken a beautiful, brutal world to vivid, absorbing life.
