Helm

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The wondrous, elemental new novel from a 'writer of show-stopping genius' - about nature, people and the sliver of time we have left.

Financial Times
Sarah Perry
Spectator
Observer
Andrew Miller
George Monbiot

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.

DAISY JOHNSON
BENJAMIN MYERS
SARAH MOSS
.' FINANCIAL TIMES
LEE SCHOFIELD
. SPECTATOR
ANDREW MILLER