![]() Nebula and Lambda Award-winning author Nicola Griffith returns with Spear, a glorious queer retelling of Arthurian legend, full of dazzling magic and intoxicating adventure.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com. The lacuna affords Griffith ( Stay, 2002, etc.) the opportunity to put her well-informed imagination to work while staying true to the historical. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate. Of Hilda’sHild’slife not much is known, save that she was an adept administrator and intellectually tough-minded champion of Christianity in the first years of its arrival in Britain. ![]() On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. 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.Īnd 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 on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. ![]() This program is read by the author and includes a bonus PDF of detailed notes.Ī spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild ![]()
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