Helm

‘Hall makes language shimmer and burn.’ DAMON GALGUT ‘No one writes like Sarah Hall.’ SARAH PERRY ‘I can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills, surprises and staggers.’ BENJAMIN MYERS A wondrous, elemental novel from ‘a writer of show-stopping genius’ GUARDIAN ‘Hall’s writing is alchemical, magnificent, divine, bodily. Here are new ways to understand what it feels like to be human. Here are books to cherish … I lay myself at the altar of everything Hall writes.’ DAISY JOHNSON

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. Twice nominated for the Man Booker Prize, she is the award-winning author of six novels and three short-story collections: The Beautiful Indifference, which won the Edge Hill and Portico prizes, Madame Zero, winner of the East Anglian Book Award, and Sudden Traveller, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. She is currently the only author to be four times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, which she won in 2013 with ‘Mrs Fox’ and in 2020 with ‘The Grotesques’.