Burntcoat

Sarah Hall

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Faber & Faber
16 August 2022

Sculpture; Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Erotic fiction

'Dark and brilliant.' - SARAH MOSS 'A masterpience.' - DAISY JOHNSON 'Extraordinary.' - SARAH PERRY

In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days.

Downstairs, the studio is a crucible glowing with memories and desire. It was here, when the first lockdown came, that she brought Halit. The lover she barely knew. A presence from another culture. A doorway into a new and feverish world.

'Sarah Hall makes language shimmer and burn . . . One of the finest writers at work today.' - DAMON GALGUT 'Wonderful . . . The writing goes down smoking hot onto the page.' - ANDREW MILLER 'I can think of no other British writer whose talent so consistently thrills, surprises and staggers . . . With Burntcoat she has solidified her status as the literary shining light we lesser souls aspire to.' - BENJAMIN MYERS

By: Sarah Hall
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 189g
ISBN: 9780571329342
ISBN 10: 0571329349
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 16 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria. Twice nominated for the Man Booker Prize, she is the award-winning author of five novels and three short story collections: The Beautiful Indifference, which won the Edge Hill and Portico prizes, Madame Zero, winner of the East Anglian Book Award, and Sudden Traveller, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. She is currently the only author to be four times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, which she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox' and in 2020 with 'The Grotesques'.