{"product_id":"helm-1","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\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":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56414851432792,"sku":"9780571383580","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571383580_825f669d-b629-466a-b402-f07311ff8b98.jpg?v=1778309152","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/helm-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}