They settle at the court of her uncle Edwin, an ambitious rising king who is quickly convinced that Hild will be his seer. Her father, a prince, will be murdered she and her mother and sister must flee their royal estate. Her pregnant mother dreamed the baby would be “the light of the world,” a beacon for their people. Though she’s only 3 when the book begins - a little 7th-century Anglo-Saxon princess playing at the edge of a wood - Hild’s fate was set in the womb. Now into that void steps the title character of Nicola Griffith’s terrific new novel, “Hild,” a fictionalized version of St. Katniss Everdeen notwithstanding, female heroes in fiction are still as rare as a decent meal in District 12.
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