{"product_id":"9780571383580","title":"Helm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGuardian,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eObserver, New Statesman, Financial Times, Independent, BBC \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Vital, fierce and free.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Incandescently good.' \u003c\/b\u003eSarah Perry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Pulsing with life and lyricism.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fiercely exuberant.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Delightfully playful.\u003c\/b\u003e' Andrew Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A truly astonishing thing.'\u003c\/b\u003e George Monbiot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wondrous, elemental novel from 'a writer of show-stopping genius'. \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE, THE GORDON BURN PRIZE, THE WINSTON GRAHAM PRIZE and THE LAKELAND FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE AND THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelm 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVital and audacious, \u003ci\u003eHelm\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Sarah Hall's writing has conquered the body and the soul and now it conquers the wind itself.' \u003c\/b\u003eDAISY JOHNSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills, surprises and staggers.'\u003c\/b\u003e BENJAMIN MYERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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.' \u003c\/b\u003eSARAH MOSS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eHelm\u003c\/i\u003e is as vital, fierce and free as the phenomenon it describes.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A spectacular epic tapestry. Nobody could tell the story of our inextricable relationship with wild nature as beautifully as Sarah Hall.' \u003c\/b\u003eLEE SCHOFIELD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[Hall] sweeps from the cinematic to the specific, her prose pulsing with life and lyricism. \u003ci\u003eHelm \u003c\/i\u003epushes both the boundaries of the novel and our relationship with nature.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A big, celebratory book, in places delightfully playful, in others as tight and breathless as a thriller.'\u003c\/b\u003e ANDREW MILLER\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall, Sarah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54304197247303,"sku":"9780571383580","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/6675\/5143\/files\/9780571383580.jpg?v=1783417913","url":"https:\/\/borderlessbooks.myshopify.com\/products\/9780571383580","provider":"Borderless Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}