Recommended Reading: My Final Thoughts on “Hild” by Nicola Griffiths

Recent posts on “great heroines” (all summarised here) reminded me that I needed to round up my final thoughts on Hild by Nicola Griffiths.

In my “What I’m Reading” post on September 25, I said:

“…so far, at around three quarters of the way through [Hild], I am absolutely loving it. I feel it is one of the best historical novels I have read in quite some time, not even excepting Hilary Mantel’s Booker prize-winning, Wolf Hall … just about everything about Hild is fabulous: a great historical se...