text: Excerpt of Hild, by Nicola Griffith |
  The middle fire in hall was burning bright, and Ceredig king wore his ceremonial wolfskin cloak and most splendid torc, though there was no one else there but two housefolk standing by the wall. Onnen and the three children paused just inside the doorway.
  NICOLA GRIFFITH is the award winning author of a memoir and five novels, including her latest novel, Hild. A native of Yorkshire, England—now a dual U.S./U.K. citizen—she is a onetime self-defense instructor who turned to writing full-time upon being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1993. She lives with her wife, the writer Kelley Eskridge, in Seattle.
  Excerpted from Hild, by Nicola Griffith, copyright © 2013 by Nicola Griffith. With permission of the publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.