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Hild is one of those pieces of historical fiction that is so deeply imagined that not only do the characters walk out of the pages but the era emerges from the murk of long ago. Hild, known to history as Hilda of Whitby, navigates the dangerous political cross currents of Seventh Century England's several small kingdoms. She is so attuned to her world, the natural and the political, that she gains status as a prophet and a witch. I've never understood what prompted rulers in the early Medieval p
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