Hild

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2013 by Nicola Griffith

Map copyright © 2013 by Jeffrey L. Ward

All rights reserved

First edition, 2013

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Griffith, Nicola.

Hild: a novel / Nicola Griffith. — First edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-374-28087-1 (hardback)

1. Hilda, of whitby, Saint, 614–680—Fiction. 2. Christian women saints—England—Whitby—Fiction. 3. Christian saints—England—Northumbria (Region)—Fiction. 4. Women—History—Middle Ages, 500–1500—Fiction. I. Title

PS3557.R48935 H55 2013

813'.54—dc23

2013022510

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