Sarah Hall

Multi-award winning author
Twice nominated for the Booker Prize
Twice winner of the BBC Short Story Award

Helm by Sarah Hall

The wondrous, elemental new novel from a ‘writer of show-stopping genius’
– about nature, people and the sliver of time we have left.

“A monumental literary tribute to the interconnection, as old as time, of weather and humanity.” Kirkus

“Magisterial, millennial-spanning.” Justine Jordan, Guardian’s deputy literary editor and Booker Prize Judge 2024

“★★★★★ – Helm will sweep you off your feet.” The Independent

“Helm pushes both the boundaries of the novel and our relationship with nature.” The Spectator

“Helm is as vital, fierce and free as the phenomenon it describes.” Financial Times

“A mighty epic of climate change in slow motion.” The Guardian

“An accomplished book that could well win prizes.” The Scotsman

“A wide-ranging narrative filled with hope and awe.” Marie Claire

“Gripping, boisterous, capacious, sexy and, in places, deeply spiritual.” Mark Haddon

“Sarah Hall’s new novel Helm is incandescently good. It is sexy and funny and erudite and strange, and the prose is dizzyingly good. Up there with her best.Sarah Perry

“I forced myself to read slowly so it wouldn’t end, and still consumed Helm as if starving. This is a novel to wallow in, it’s rich and snug and feels wonderful.” Courttia Newland

“Helm is just a brilliant achievement … I can think of no better writer to give voice to a natural phenomenon, because she is one herself.” Kirstin Innes

“A spectacular epic tapestry. Nobody could tell the story of our inextricable relationship with wild nature as beautifully as Sarah Hall.” Lee Schofield

“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

“A big, celebratory book, in places delightfully playful, in others as tight and breathless as a thriller.” Andrew Miller

“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

Sarah Hall

Books

Helm. August 2025.

About

Sarah Hall is one of the UK’s most talented authors. Twice nominated for Man-Booker Prize, the first and only writer to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice, she has written 10 highly acclaimed novels and short story collections.

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