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Helm

by Sarah Hall

First published 2025

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Reception

Rave reviews. 10 of 12 critics gave a rave.

Rave 10 · Positive 1 · Mixed 1 · Pan 0

  • “Hall’s breath proves just as powerful and unpredictable as Helm’s”

    The Washington Post · Ron Charles · Rave

2 more quotes

  • “Mischievous … This inventive, ambitious, often witty storm system of a novel spans centuries”

    The New York Times Book Review · Lydia Millet · Rave

  • “Each strand of Helm has…concentration; the characters and voices could stand alone, but they flow together into something deep and rich”

    The Guardian (UK) · Aida Edemariam · Rave

All 12 reviews on Book Marks

  1. 2025
    Goldsmiths Prize
    Shortlist
  2. 2025
    The Guardian, best books of 2025

    Fiction.

  3. 2025
    Lit Hub, the Ultimate Best Books of 2025 List

    On 5 lists.

  4. 2025
    NPR, books We Love 2025

    Fiction.

2 more entries
  1. 2026
    The Guardian

    Reviewed, 30 July

  2. 2026
    Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
    Longlist

About the book

From the twice-Booker-nominated writer of Burntcoat, an astonishing literary masterpiece that explores faith, connection, and our relationship to the natural world, for readers of The Overstory and North Woods

Description from Hardcover

About the author

Sarah Hall, born 1974, United Kingdom.

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Catalogue record

Faber & Faber, 2025 · 256 pages

Publisher
Faber & Faber, 2025
Pages
256
ISBN
978-0-571-38355-9 +1
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Publisher
Faber & Faber, 2025
Pages
256
ISBNs
  • 978-0-571-38355-9
  • 978-0-06-343994-8
Editions
  • HarperCollins Publishers, 2025, 368 pages 978-0-06-343994-8
  • Faber & Faber, 2025, 256 pages 978-0-571-39731-0
  • Faber & Faber, 2025 978-0-571-38357-3
  • Faber & Faber, 2025, 256 pages 978-0-571-38355-9
Author
Hall, Sarah, 1974–
Statement
Helm / Sarah Hall.
Records
Open Library Wikidata

Subjects

  • United Kingdom
  • 2020s

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026