“Alarmingly talented.”

— The Sunday Times

“Sarah Hall makes language shimmer and burn. One of the finest writers at work today.”

— Damon Galgut, 2021 Booker Prize winner

“A writer at the top of her game.”

— Mail On Sunday

“The woman is a genius.”

— Observer

“To enter into a world created by Sarah Hall is to step into a landscape that is feral and alive. It’s a voice, fierce and unapologetic, uniquely her own.”

— Financial Times

“A writer of show-stopping genius.”

— Guardian

“Nobody writes like Sarah Hall.”

— Sarah Perry, 2024 Booker Prize long-list

“One of our most talented writers.”

— Metro

“A writer of both rare vision and talent.”

— The Sunday Times

“I can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills, surprises and staggers. She is the best there is.”

— Benjamin Myers, author of The Gallows Pole

“Serious literary talent.”

— Scotland on Sunday

“Hall is an outstanding writer.”

— Metro

“Her writing is visceral and engaging.”

— The Times

“A writer of extraordinary talents.”

— Guardian

“She does darkness so very well.”

— The Times

“A writer who engages all the reader’s senses.”

— Daily Telegraph

“One of our most influential short story writers.”

— Guardian

“One of the finest writers of short stories.”

— Financial Times

“Shortlisted for the Booker Prize as a novelist, Hall seems to have made the short story genre explicitly her own.”

— New Statesman

“Booker-shortlisted twice for her novels, Hall is an edgy, sensuous and immediate writer of striking power and grace.”

— The Sunday Times

“Hall has a golden touch, texturing her pages with rich metaphor and lyrical prose.”

— Economist

“A writer to indulge, and her sensuous, poetic prose is every bit as evocative as sand poured from a pocket at the end of a holiday.”

— Daily Mail

“Reading Sarah Hall’s fiction is a full-body experience. An intensely tactile, sensuous author; her words engage all five senses.”

— Herald

“Shortlisted for the Booker Prize as a novelist, Hall seems to have made the short story genre explicitly her own.”

— New Statesman

“Sarah Hall should probably stop publishing short stories for a while to give other writers a chance. If she’s not the best short story writer in Britain, then — but why even finish that sentence?”

— Spectator

“Reaches a standard that makes award juries sit up and take note. Hall’s voice is strong and distinctive - even, in single, elevated passages, exquisite.”

— Financial Times

“A writer of sensual and striking prose, Hall is at her best capturing wild landscapes.”

— Independent

“Sarah Hall should be on everyone’s reading list. She’s the best British writer around right now.”

— Foyles

“A writer of sensual, muscular prose about the liminal spaces between civilisation and wilderness.”

— Independent on Sunday

“Sarah Hall is one of those rare writers whose short fiction has the same luminosity as her novels.”

— Observer