{"product_id":"helm","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\u003eWINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE, THE GORDON BURN PRIZE AND THE WINSTON GRAHAM PRIZE \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":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481485746549,"sku":"9780571383580","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571383580.jpg?v=1786089749","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/helm","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}