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An electrifying story of passion, connection and transformation from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian).

'Dark and brilliant.' SARAH MOSS
'A masterpiece.' DAISY JOHNSON
'Extraordinary.' SARAH PERRY
'Searing... Sarah Hall's best work yet.' JON McGREGOR

You were the last one here before I closed the door of Burntcoat, before we all shut our doors.

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.

'One of the best books of the year.' TELEGRAPH
'Hall has set a bar . . . Finely wrought, intellectually 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
'Transporting . . . A beautiful novel, full of heat and darkness.' AVNI DOSHI
'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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Nov. 9 2021
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12.9 x 1.6 x 19.8 cm
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0571329314
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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'.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber Fiction; Main edition (Nov. 9 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571329314
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571329311
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 290 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.6 x 19.8 cm

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Jasmine M

An exquisite and haunting story

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 9, 2021

Edith Harkness, a renowned sculptor, is living her last days and is reflecting on her life. Edith recalls when she was a young girl, her mother suffered a brain aneurysm and how it altered their life trajectory. To the days when she learned art techniques that would eventually lead her to win awards and more wealth than she knew how to comprehend. To the days when the world shut down, when she and her new love, Halit, went into lockdown together.

This story centres around a COVID-like virus; however, the virus presented here is more severe and the public’s response slightly more dangerous. Edith contracted the virus when it was first circulating, and now some thirty years later is suffering a relapse. The cause of her relapse is unknown to scientists, but what is definite is that Edith does not have long to live. As Edith reminisces on her life, she completes the finishing touches on her magnum opus, knowing that she will never see its final installation.

This is a slowly-paced literary work that captured my attention from its opening sentence. The timeline skips around as Edith recalls different instances, but it gets less confusing as the novel progresses. I’d recommend reading it in one or two sittings in order not to be thrown off by the time skips.

There are themes on desire, love, lust, art, family, grief, and sickness.

I knew I would like this book, but I didn’t think I would LOVE it. I also didn’t know it would be so seductive and intense, but I am not complaining, not at all. The story goes to some very dark places. It steers clear of toxic romantically dark places, but rather explores grim and isolated ones that are quite graphic.

I won’t say more than that because I want this story to tear through the hearts of other readers.

This was my first Sarah Hall book, but it will not be my last.

Thank you to Faber and Faber for the arc provided via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

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Catmandu

Powerful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 26, 2021

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This is an intense, moving novel of love, sex, art and death from the award-winning Sarah Hall. Of those big subjects art comes off worse. The narrator is far more convincing when talking tenderly about her disabled mother, or detailing her all-consuming new relationship: few people write about good sex as well as Hall. Above all, she is convincing when writing in visceral detail about endstage illness, and here lies my problem. The pandemic feels too soon and too raw, for this brutal treatment. But the writing is always powerful, and often beautiful with some stunning passages of reflection. Probably in time this will be seen as a classic of the new genre.

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Brooke Fieldhouse

A grim little book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 17, 2022

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Modest EDITH is a successful sculptor. So successful that she receives commissions of national importance, so modest that she avoids the limelight of celebrity and hides herself in a house called Burntcoat somewhere in the north of England. Her sculptures are in wood, so burnt wood, burnt and burning is a central metaphor in Sarah Hall’s novel BURNTCOAT. The book is also about sex, love, and death, against the backdrop of a fictitious pandemic.
Though I’ve been to see/listen to Sarah Hall twice, and enjoyed listening to her short story Mrs Fox on the radio, this was my first reading of one of her novels and I was one third disappointed one third fascinated and one third satisfied. Here’s why:
There’s no continuous time line. The narrative consists of short bursts of story from different points in time; i) a working sojourn in Japan learning wood-burning techniques, ii) time spent with her first boyfriend Ali, iii) attempting to care for her lover Turkish restauranteur HALIT after he contracts the virus, one with symptoms alarmingly similar to Ebola and which is called NOVA, and iv) the relationship with her mother NAOMI. The element of the novel which most fascinated and pleased me was Edith’s relationship with her mother, who when Edith is a little girl suffers a brain haemorrhage which she survives but has to rediscover her identity and the cerebral event has subdued her emotions. Effectively ‘Mummy’ disappears, and is replaced with ‘Naomi.’ The reader is prepared – to some extent - for the tone of grimness of the effects of a pandemic, which according to the narrative kills one million in Britain, by the interlude with Edith's first 'real' boyfriend Ali. There’s an ectopic pregnancy, sexually-transmitted infections, psychological and physical abuse, and a frighteningly elegant scene in which Edith is shielded by Naomi from Ali who is trying to provoke her into getting what he wants, but he hasn’t bargained for Naomi’s deadened emotions which diffuse him. Halit is the love of Edith’s life, so you would expect some development in the relationship between the two of them. Oh, there’s sex, pages, pages and pages of DH Lawrence inspired beard-twitching sex, but with Halit, not much else. Then it dawned on me that Halit is little more than a tool, a victim to show the virulence of the disease. ‘You faced the ceiling, blind like the head of a plant waiting for the light’s instruction,’ even before he contracts Nova, Halit is a victim, a non-character, so developing the relationship between he and Edith is a non-starter. Everything goes into the care she tries to give him, and it was here that I was heavily reminded of the relationship between Kit and Port Moresby in Paul Bowles’ novel The Sheltering Sky. There, Kit allows herself to be consumed by the subcultures of the North African desert, while here, Edith appears to be doomed by Nova. ‘There’s no good way to wait for a disaster…the days before are already afflicted. Emptied of productivity, slippery with fear.’ Hall’s book, grim as it is, isn’t – we hope - necessarily prophetic, but it sure is thought-provoking.
And finally, if the reader has lulled themselves into a sense of security thinking ‘well, at least COVID wasn’t as bad as this fictitious virus – I mean, we’re down to 30k cases a day now and 300 daily deaths so we’re out of the woods etc’, consider that if we continue at the present rate – and there’s always a chance of a resurgence – then by Christmas 2022 Covid will have killed as many as died in the UK from Spanish flu in 1918 -1920, and in another twelve years will have contributed to the deaths of one million people in the UK, so as they say in the north of England, “think on!”

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Why make the pandemic worse?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 4, 2022

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There's much to enjoy in Hall's novel; it is an incredibly poised and ambitious work. It eschews an obvious narrative arc, turns sharply through sections of backstory as Hall meditates on what it is to make art in the context of a pandemic. Mark-making, mortality, desire, lust. However, I do think it was a risk to exaggerate the pandemic. So many of us have suffered as it is; we do not need to be reminded that it could have been worse. I do think the book falters as a result. At times, I found the prose quite writerly, as if being made to observe the novel under glass.

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Unusual and compelling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 30, 2022

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I've not read anything like this book before and am torn between four and five stars. The characters both perplexed and intrigued me, but the virus was all too familiar and the situation upsetting, however beautifully written. I loved the description of the building and Edith's studio, which I was able to visualise so clearly I thought I was there. Thank you, Sarah Hall, for a challenging read.

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MadCow

Not quite what I expected

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 14, 2022

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While the writing is often beautiful, with a dreamy quality, I found I was not engaged with the characters. I didn't feel I got to know them well enough to care about them. But then, I haven't read it all the way through. I was thinking of giving up anyway when I encountered the tampon episode (not very far into the book) and I'm afraid that did it for me. I may go back to it but at the moment it feels like I'd be doing that out of obligation rather than as something I want to do.

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