Nicola Griffith

"The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides...

Peretur crece salvaje, aislada en la naturaleza junto a su madre, envuelta en leyendas antiguas y secretos prohibidos. Llegará el día en que parta en busca de Caer Leon soñando con convertirse en uno de los caballeros del rey Artos. En el camino realizará gestas, derrotará bandidos y enamorará doncellas, pero en su pasión por la vida olvidará el peligro del que su madre la protegía, y cuyo destino es hacer frente. Un lírico retelling...

"A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest...