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Win proof copies of Helm by Sarah Hall for your reading group

For Adults

To celebrate the upcoming publication of Helm, the new novel from award-winning author Sarah Hall, we’re offering five reading groups the chance to win up to ten proof copies of the book.

To enter, please contact mollie.stewart@faber.co.uk. The closing date for entries is Friday 11 July.

About the Book

‘Helm doesn’t care which story is true. So long as there is Helm.’

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.

Rich, wild and vital, 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.

Hailed as a ‘writer of show-stopping genius’ and a two-time 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’.

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