PORT TOWNSEND — Nicola Griffith, winner of the Washington State Book Award for her new historical novel Hild, will come to the Port Townsend Library Learning Center to give a reading this Monday.
Admission is free to the 6:30 p.m. event, while copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Hild is the story of Saint Hilda of Whitby, a woman who rose to power during a time of great change in Anglo-Saxon times.
Griffith wrote her book — set in seventh-century Britain — to find out who Hild was, how she faced her culture’s constraints and how she became a revered figure.
This new book is just part one, taking readers from her life as a child up to her 19th year.
“Saints are never saintly in real life,” Griffith has said. “They’re complicated, sometimes difficult, human beings.”
Griffith, recently returned from a book tour in England, will sign copies of Hild after her talk Monday at the Library Learning Center, 1256 Lawrence St.
Her appearance is sponsored by the Friends of the Port Townsend Library, and more information can be found at 360-385-3181 and www.PTPublicLibrary.org.
