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"LIKE GAME OF THRONES WITHOUT THE DRAGONS" (MANDA SCOTT), A BRILLIANT, SWEEPING HISOTRICAL NOVEL OF THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: HILD
In seventh-century Britain, a new religion is coming ashore and small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Hild is the king's youngest niece, with a glittering mind and a natural authority.
She is destined to become one of the pivotal figures of the Middle Ages: Saint Hilda of Whitby. But now she has only the powerful curiosity of a bright child and a plotting uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, who will stop at nothing to become overking of Angles. Hild establishes a place for herself at his side as the king's seer, and she is indispensable, so long as she doesn't lead Edwin astray. The stakes are high—life and death—for Hild, for her family, and, increasingly, for those who seek the protection from this strange girl who can read the world and seems to see the future.
• Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel
• For readers of Susanna Clarke, George R. R. Martin, and Hilary Mantel