"I'm awed by Sarah Hall's ability to hold timelines from prehistory to modern climate anxiety in simultaneous tension. 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, author of Ghost Wall and The Fell
"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, author of Sisters and The Hotel
"Hall produces a stirring, funny, absolutely idiosyncratic history-novel....This is a perfect meeting of mind, style, moment, and story." - Lithub
"Helm
is just a brilliant achievement, and could really only be created by Sarah Hall. I can think of no better writer to give voice to a natural phenomenon, because she is one herself." -
Kirstin Innes, author of Fishnet and Brickwork"
Helm is a wonder. I'm almost drunk on so many voices and so much invention. There's something fearless in the way Sarah Hall writes. It's a novel rooted in a sense of place, but extraordinarily expansive in its time travelling. A big, celebratory book, in places delightfully playful, in others as tight and breathless as a thriller. A writer at full stretch and at the top of her craft."
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Andrew Miller, author of Oxygen and Now We Should Be Entirely Free"As powerful and as awe-inspiring as the storm itself,
Helm's visceral prose swirls a host of vivid characters into a spectacular epic tapestry. Nobody could tell the story of our inextricable relationship with wild nature as beautifully as Sarah Hall."
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Lee Schofield, author of Wild Fell"A monumental literary tribute to the interconnection, as old as time, of weather and humanity....Variously playful, irreverent, and lyrical...The ambition and accomplishment are undeniable, and carry the force of a major weather event."
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Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Helm is as vital, fierce and free as the phenomenon it describes."
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Financial Times"If you only read one book, make it
Helm by Sarah Hall."
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The Guardian"
Helm pushes both the boundaries of the novel and our relationship with nature."
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The Spectator"Virtuosic...To center a novel on a sentient wind and its relationship with humans is audacious, but Hall carries it off with conviction, fully inhabiting disparate voices across centuries...Readers will be swept away by Hall's ambitious and formally daring narrative." -
Publishers Weekly
