Sarah Hall
Multi-award winning author
Twice nominated for the Booker Prize
Twice winner of the BBC Short Story Award
Helm by Sarah Hall
“The wondrous, elemental new novel from a ‘writer of show-stopping genius’
– about nature, people and the sliver of time we have left.”
Audio narrated by Louise Brealey
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“Sarah Hall’s new novel Helm is a truly astonishing book. She has that extraordinary gift, shared by so few – Tolstoy, Chekhov, Maupassant, Elliot – of making you believe that what you are reading is real, as if all she has done is to wipe a window clean so you can see through it. What she sets out to do in this novel seems impossible, yet she pulls it off to brilliant effect. I must confess that I was starting to lose faith in British literature… But this book has restored it.” George Monbiot
“★★★★★ – Helm will sweep you off your feet.” The Independent
“Sarah Hall’s new novel Helm is incandescently good. It is sexy and funny and erudite and strange, and the prose is dizzyingly good. Up there with her best.” Sarah Perry
“Helm is as vital, fierce and free as the phenomenon it describes.” Financial Times
“Marvellous . . . An enthralling novel, full of wild, restless poetry.” Daily Mail
“A monumental literary tribute to the interconnection, as old as time, of weather and humanity.” Kirkus
“Hall produces a stirring, funny, absolutely idiosyncratic history-novel. A perfect meeting of mind, style, moment, and story.” Literary Hub
“Helm pushes both the boundaries of the novel and our relationship with nature.” The Spectator
“A huge, millennia-spanning achievement.” The Guardian
“A bold climate-fiction epic that’s as cerebral as it is visceral.” i Newspaper
“Exhilarating . . . Cli-fi is rarely this playful – nor this vital.” Mail on Sunday
“For absorbing fiction, Sarah Hall’s new book Helm is predictably superb.” Irish Times
“Ferociously exuberant . . . defiantly filled with life, expressed most strikingly by the novelist’s love of language.” Observer
“An accomplished book that could well win prizes.” The Scotsman
“Pressing and prescient, funny yet furious. I urge you to grab a copy.” Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
“Gripping, boisterous, capacious, sexy and, in places, deeply spiritual.” Mark Haddon
“I forced myself to read slowly so it wouldn’t end, and still consumed Helm as if starving. This is a novel to wallow in, it’s rich and snug and feels wonderful.” Courttia Newland
“Sarah Hall’s writing has conquered the body and the soul and now it conquers the wind itself. She gets better with every word she writes.” Daisy Johnson
“The latest, wondrous novel by two-time Booker nominee Sarah Hall.” The Bookseller
“Virtuosic … Readers will be swept away by Hall’s ambitious and formally daring narrative.” Publishers Weekly
“I’m awed … I wouldn’t think a novel could be at once so taut and so multifarious, expanding one’s sense of what fiction can do.” Sarah Moss
“A big, celebratory book, in places delightfully playful, in others as tight and breathless as a thriller.” Andrew Miller
“A wide-ranging narrative filled with hope and awe.” Marie Claire
“Helm is just a brilliant achievement … I can think of no better writer to give voice to a natural phenomenon, because she is one herself.” Kirstin Innes
“A spectacular epic tapestry. Nobody could tell the story of our inextricable relationship with wild nature as beautifully as Sarah Hall.” Lee Schofield
“Magisterial, millennial-spanning.” Justine Jordan, Guardian’s deputy literary editor and Booker Prize Judge 2024
“Gripping, boisterous, capacious, sexy and, in places, deeply spiritual.” – Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
“A major novel of mortality, passion, and human connection – from one of the finest writers working today.” – Damon Galgut (Man-Booker Prize Winner 2021)
“Confirming that Hall is a writer at the top of her game.” – Mail on Sunday
“The poetic use of language, the dexterity and originality of the prose made Mrs Fox utterly unique.” – Mariella Frostrup
“Astonishing: humane yet otherworldly, disturbing, sexy and strange. The woman is a genius.” – Observer
“An exquisite new collection.” – Toronto Star
“A graceful, visceral, utterly compelling read.” – Sunday Express
“Reaches a standard that makes award juries sit up and take note.” – Financial Times
“An amazing feat of literary engineering. While her characters are sharp and hauntingly memorable, it is for her mastery of landscape that Hall is most acclaimed.” – Independent on Sunday
“A hugely compelling novel of a nightmarish but conceivable future, brilliantly written.” – Bookseller
“Her gorgeously embellished prose compels the narrative, along with the beguiling vignettes she conjures up. The effect is intoxicating.” – Financial Times
“First impression: here is a new writer of show-stopping genius; everyone should buy this novel.” – Guardian
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall is one of the UK’s most talented authors. Twice nominated for Man-Booker Prize, the first and only writer to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice, she has written 10 highly acclaimed novels and short story collections.
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