Helm

'Incandescently good.' Sarah Perry

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<p><b>** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW **</b><br><b><br>''Sarah Hall''s writing has conquered the body and the soul and now it conquers the wind itself.'' </b>DAISY JOHNSON<br><b>''Ye Gods, Ms Hall is talented.'' </b>DAVID MITCHELL<br><b>''Incandescently good ... </b><b> sexy and funny and erudite and strange.'' </b>SARAH PERRY, <i>GUARDIAN</i><br><b>''You can always rely on Hall to blow you away.'' </b><i> I PAPER</i><br><br><b>A wondrous, elemental novel from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' </b>(<i>Guardian</i>).<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Vital and audacious, <i>Helm</i> 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.<br><br><b>''I can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills, surprises and staggers.'' </b>BENJAMIN MYERS<br><b>''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.''</b> SARAH MOSS<br><b>''<i>Helm</i> is just a brilliant achievement ... I can think of no better writer to give voice to a natural phenomenon, because she is one herself.''</b> KIRSTIN INNES<br><b>''A spectacular epic tapestry. Nobody could tell the story of our inextricable relationship with wild nature as beautifully as Sarah Hall.'' </b>LEE SCHOFIELD<br><b>''I forced myself to read slowly so it wouldn't end, and still consumed Helm as i

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780571383559

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

237 x 162 x 36 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Faber & Faber