I seem to be posting more about books since I joined Mastodon, so I thought I might start posting about my favourite #comfortbooks. Maybe one a day or so until I run out.

My first and favourite is #Hild by #NicolaGriffith

A fictional account of the real St Hilda of Whitby. I read this at least once a year and never tire of it. It is gentle and bloody, comforting and confronting. The writing is exquisite and matched to the setting and time, and opening it at any page will lose me in Hild's world. The sequel, Menewood, is due for release later this year. You will need to refer to the glossary (unless you are a mediaeval historian).

Nicola has also written amazing feminist SF (check out Ammonite and Slow River) and crime / mystery novels (the Aud Torvingen novels starting with The Blue Place).

https://www.npr.org/2013/11/14/240301047/with-nuanced-beauty-hild-destroys-myths-of-medieval-womanhood

https://nicolagriffith.com/2022/11/17/hild-menewood-and-meanwood/

#sff #books #historicalfiction
@bookstodon

@sadgrove

Thank you.

You might find this entry from my blog interesting.

#hild #hilda #whitby #Abbey #well #hinderwell
https://whitbypopwatch.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-site-for-sore-eyes-st-hildas-holy-well.html?m=1