“The best fictional attempt to recreate Dark Age Britain that I have ever read.” - Alex Woolf.“ Hild is the most absorbing and addictive story I’ve read in years… It’s feminist, intelligent, glorious.” - Vulpes Libris.“Griffith’s narrative flows like a river Hild’s thoughts and deeds are expressed in pitch-perfect tone, in prose approaching poetry.” - Historical Novel Society.A glorious, intensely passionate walk through an entirely real landscape, Hild leads us into the dark ages and makes them light, and tense, and edgy and deeply moving.” - Manda Scott “You could describe Hild as being like Game of Thrones without the dragons, but this is so much deeper than that, so much richer.“Vivid, vital, and visceral, Hild’s history reads like a thriller.” - Val McDermid.“Splendid…not only beautiful but also meaningful… I can hardly wait for the next.” - Los Angeles Review of Books.“Vibrant, if brutal… Inventive and vivid.” - Washington Post.Griffith will seduce you … and keep you mesmerized.” - io9.com “This is one of the truly great novels of the past year.I can’t recommend it highly enough.” - Robin Sloan It has a lot to say about women’s lives, then and now. “ Hild is honestly a masterpiece, somehow both super fun/escapist AND deadly serious/deep.“A stunning blend of real history and soaring imagination…steeped in the language and customs of early Britain, rich in historical detail, outstanding in observation of human nature…believable and breathtaking.” - Lancashire Evening Post.It genuinely brings the period to life.” - The Bookseller “Beautiful, thorny jacket for this beautiful literary novel.“What a fabulous book! I fell into this world completely and was sorry to come out. Truly, truly remarkable.” - Karen Joy Fowler.“The novel resonates to many of the same chords as Beowulf, the legends of King Arthur, Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones-to the extent that Hild begins to feel like the classic on which those books are based.” - Neal Stephenson.“…dazzling… Griffith’s lyrical prose emphasizes the savagery of the political landscape, in which religion, sex, and superstition are wielded mercilessly for personal gain.” - Paris Review Daily.To read it felt like a privilege and a gift.” - NPR “ Hild is a book as loving as it is fierce, brilliant and accomplished.Griffith illuminates the so-called Dark Ages, reconstructing an often alien historical world with great precision.” - BBC History Magazine “Vivid, richly detailed…a powerful, clever novel.“A magnificent and convincing portrayal of a strange, wild, beautiful world.” - Guardian.“In it’s ambition and intelligence, Hild might best be compared to Hilary Mantel’s novels about Thomas Cromwell.” - Bookforum.Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 12 November 2013

Hild by Nicola Griffith