We're delighted to welcome the acclaimed author, Sarah Hall to West Kirby, to celebrate the publication of her latest novel, Helm.
Join us on Friday 10 October at 7pm, when Sarah will be in conversation with Simon Savidge, before answering questions from the audience and signing copies of her books.
Tickets are £6 standard admission or £20 including a copy of the book. Complimentary refreshments will also be provided.
If you can't make the event and would like to reserve a signed/dedicated copy of the book, please get in touch and we'll be happy to help.
We look forward to seeing you there!
About Helm:
'An edgy, sensuous, and immediate writer of striking power and grace.' ― Sunday Times
'Hall is able to address the darkness of the world while still seeing, treasuring, what's bright. Helm marks a new stage in her fascinating career: visionary, adventurous, full of an unlikely and contagious sense of hope. That's rare enough.' ― Observer
'Sarah Hall is a writer bold and talented enough to pull off a novel in which the main character is the wind itself . . . Helm, which was 20 years in the making, will sweep you off your feet.' ― Independent
'You can always rely on Hall to blow you away, but never has this been more fitting than with this story about the titular wind, the people who have tried to capture it - and the scientist who believes pollution might kill it.' ― i Paper
'Magisterial.' ― Guardian
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.
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.
Vital and audacious, Helm 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.
About Sarah Hall:
Hailed as a 'writer of show-stopping genius' and a two-time Man Booker Prize nominee, Sarah Hall is the award-winning author of six novels and three short-story collections. Notably, she is the only author to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice -first in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox' and again in 2020 with 'The Grotesques'.
