An electrifying novel of passion, connection and transformation from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian).
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'.
'Hall has set a bar . . . Finely wrought, intellecutally brave and
emotionally honest.' - THE SCOTSMAN
'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
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