Nate visited the bFM studio for our first review of 2026.
A monumental novel, twenty years in the making, Helm traces humanities connection with a Cumbrian wind of that same name, Ranging from the modern day to Celtic England, it shows how humans have always been shaped by nature, and the irreversible loss we risk by upsetting a long held balance.
Hall has always been a magnificent prose writer and she finds perhaps her greatest achievement here in the personified voice of Helm (the wind). Playful, aloof, alien and constantly changing.
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