Menewood

“Redemptive, absorbing, and deeply satisfying.”
–Constance Grady, Vox

”[A] masterpiece of immersion … Menewood is everything Hild was in terms of prose craft, depth of research and immensity of feeling… Menewood doesn’t feel like a sequel so much as the same book, the same life, spooling a little farther along its path. While I hope not to have to wait another 10 years for another volume, I trust that it would be worth it.”
–Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review

“Menewood is marvelous. Hild is an epic hero living through extraordinary times yet through her, Nicola Griffith helps us bear witness to our own time and our place within it. I wanted to read for a thousand pages.”
–Kelly Link, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer-nominated author of The Book of Love

“A wondrous piece of storytelling–mesmerizing and full of heart. Absolutely phenomenal!”
–Lucy Holland, bestselling author of Sistersong and Song of the Huntress

“If Hild showed us that close observation and inference could be mistaken for magic and vision, Menewood convinces us that the magic is embedded in history itself.”
–Gary K. Wolfe, Locus

“Griffith has published only a handful of novels, but each of them has been in some way extraordinary. She writers with a clarity of expression, precision, and force that few writers of my experience can equal … There are lines and paragraphs that will haunt me for years. Griffith has an incredible talent … I deeply admire this book.”
–Liz Bourke, Reactor Magazine

“Menewood manages to somehow surpass its beloved predecessor with its rich seventh century British setting, epic scope, and the sheer beauty of Griffith’s language.”
–Autostraddle

“Menewood is a searing depiction of a world at war, and the ferocious and complicated woman at the center of it.”
–Maria Dahvana Headley, author of The Mere Wife and Beowulf: A New Translation

“Griffith follows up Hild with a transportive second volume.”
–Publishers Weekly

”[U]nexpected and beautiful… Menewood is an even more stunning sequel … You leave somewhat dazed and dazzled … beauty and crystal clarity makes it an incredibly immersive world to inhabit. It is a book about a strange, singular woman, and her view on the world around her, and it is a marvel.”
–Roseanna Pendlebury, Nerds of a Feather

“A propulsive and detailed revenge story… the pages turn almost of themselves. This is a magnificent book.”
–Catherine Rockwood, Strange Horizons

“Menewood is an absolute triumph. Hild is truly a hero for all women, here and now.”
–Carolyne Larrington, Professor of Medieval European Literature at the University of Oxford

“Menewood is a brilliant novel as well as a craft class in world-building, Griffith’s novel is so fully realized that we feel as if she had been there.”
–Amanda Cockrell, Historical Novel Review

“Lush, textured–another gem of a book.”
–Misha Grifka Wander, Ancillary Review

Nicola Griffith (she/her) is a dual UK/US citizen living in Seattle. She is the author of seven novels, including Hild, Spear, So Lucky, and Ammonite, and her books have won the Nebula Award, the Washington State Book Award, the Otherwise/Tiptree Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Lambda Literary Award (six times). Her shorter work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, and The New York Times, among other publications. Griffith is the founder and cohost of #CripLit, holds a Ph.D. from Anglia Ruskin University, and enjoys a ferocious bout of wheelchair boxing. She is married to novelist and screenwriter Kelley Eskridge.

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