5/22/2023 0 Comments Hild nicola griffith review![]() ![]() By Sunday afternoon I had started reading it all over again. I was subliminally resentful for days until I finished it, finally, at 3am on a Sunday morning. It’s also the most absorbing and addictive story I’ve read in years. "Hild, Nicola Griffith’s fifth novel, is very long and very detailed. 'Waking and sleeping alike were one thing of hollowing air and falling.' Sharp as steel, clear as garnet, essential and sensual and right, Griffith’s telling of Hild’s adventures offers us something far better than mere comfort: the lure of the sublime." As Hild rushes to rescue her now-grown half-brother and his wife, she envisions herself as a hawk stooping to kill his pursuers. But it’s the book’s sheer beauty that will most astonish readers. ![]() ![]() "Steeping us in the taste of seventh-century England’s mead, the weight and warmth of its gorgeously woven and embroidered fabrics, and the myriad sights, sounds and scents of long ago, Seattle writer Nicola Griffith has created a marvel and a joy. ![]()
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