根據史實改編，吸睛度媲美暢銷書《狼廳》的中世紀傳奇小說

　　十七世紀的英國正面臨各小國間烽火連連、整併傾軋的戰亂危機。希爾達是當時諾桑比亞國王Edwin家族中年紀最小的女孩，天賦異稟的她擁有可預知未來的能力，最後甚至成為中世紀裡左右世局的重要人物：聖女希爾達。
　　國王Edwin狼子野心，不擇手段地透過武力、行賄等方式，目的就是要坐上那覬覦已久，盎格魯族的最高權力位置。希爾達曾經是他最得力的左右手，只不過隨著她特殊的預知能力聲名遠播，前來請求庇護的人也越來越多。生性多疑的國王與來勢洶洶的敵人，聯手將希爾達逼入進退維谷的險境中……。
　　《Hild》作者Nicola Griffith以流暢的文筆描述希爾達由純真少女蛻變為基督教聖女的傳奇過程，成功地將歷史、文學、政治與宗教融於一爐，絕對能滿足每一雙喜歡看好故事的眼睛。（文／博客來編譯）  
A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: HildIn seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king''s youngest niece, and she has a glimmering mind and a natural, noble authority. She will become a fascinating woman and 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, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world--of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing her surroundings closely and predicting what will happen next--that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her.Her uncle, Edwin of Northumbria, plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild establishes a place for herself at his side as the king''s seer. And she is indispensable--unless she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, for her family, for her loved ones, and for 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 Middle Ages--all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith''s luminous prose. Working from what little historical record is extant, Griffith has brought a beautiful, brutal world to vivid, absorbing life.
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Nicola Griffith is the award winning author of five novels and a memoir. A native of Yorkshire, England-now a dual U.S./U.K. citizen-she is a onetime self-defense instructor who turned to writing full-time upon being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1993. She lives with her wife, the writer Kelley Eskridge, in Seattle.
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