Helm: 'Incandescently good.' Sarah Perry

Hall, Sarah

ISBN 10: 0571383556 / ISBN 13: 9780571383559

Published by Faber & Faber, London UK, 2025

About this Item

This copy is the UK first edition first printing - SIGNED by the author. Brand new copy - the only blemish is the small bump to the bottom of the spine impacting both the dustjacket and the board of the book.

Seller Inventory # 001042

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Helm: 'Incandescently good.' Sarah Perry
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London UK
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571383556
• ISBN 13: 9780571383559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

'Sarah Hall's writing has conquered the body and the soul and now it conquers the wind itself.' DAISY JOHNSON
'Ye Gods, Ms Hall is talented.' DAVID MITCHELL
'Incandescently good ... sexy and funny and erudite and strange.' SARAH PERRY, GUARDIAN
'You can always rely on Hall to blow you away.' I PAPER

A wondrous, elemental novel from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian).

Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind - a subject of folklore and wonder - who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the very dawn of time.

This is Helm's life story, formed from the chronicles of those the wind enchanted: the Neolithic tribe who tried to placate it, the Dark Age wizard priest who wanted to banish it, the Victorian steam engineer who attempted to capture it - and the farmer's daughter who fell in love. But now Dr Selima Sutar, surrounded by measuring instruments, alone in her observation hut, fears the end is nigh.

Vital and audacious, Helm is the elemental tale of a unique life force - and of a relationship: between nature and people, neither of whom can weather life without the other.

'I can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills, surprises and staggers.' BENJAMIN MYERS
'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
'Helm is as vital, fierce and free as the phenomenon it describes.' FINANCIAL TIMES
'A spectacular epic tapestry. Nobody could tell the story of our inextricable relationship with wild nature as beautifully as Sarah Hall.' LEE SCHOFIELD
'[Hall] sweeps from the cinematic to the specific, her prose pulsing with life and lyricism. Helm pushes both the boundaries of the novel and our relationship with nature.' SPECTATOR
'A big, celebratory book, in places delightfully playful, in others as tight and breathless as a thriller.' ANDREW MILLER

About the Author

Hailed as a 'writer of show-stopping genius' and a two-time Man Booker Prize nominee, Sarah Hall is the award-winning author of six novels and three short-story collections. Notably, she is the only author to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice -first in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox' and again in 2020 with 'The Grotesques'.