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42% done, this book is taking me a bit longer to read. Not the book's fault I can't manage my time better.

I was a little apprehensive about the demonic wind, but Helm is growing on me. I‘m loving so far, the viewpoints from different points in time and Helm‘s relationship with humans.

I‘m not sure this was a book for me.

It‘s said to be about Helm, a wind in the Northern England. I was surprised by how little we heard from it. In this book of 340p, maybe 20-30p

And also we followed a lot of different people in different time periods, and I had a hard time knowing where I was unless their names popped up. The writing was the same no matter what. Maybe because of Helm, but I don‘t know

I enjoyed Helm a lot. I liked the structure of interwoven of separate stories. They gave a fuller description of the wind Helm than if it would have been a single narrative. I found some of the stories to be pretty funny. There was also the climate angle. How our refusal to counter climate change is not sustainable for winds like Helm, or living things.
4 stars.

Helm had all five of November's #WickedWords.
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Forgot to take a picture of the lovely green endpapers, so here is the cover again...

I'm a fan of SH, including her short stories, so no surprise that I loved this novel, stories across time linked by the one named wind in the UK. From climate change scientists measuring plastics now, back to early man's first stone monuments, "Helm" is watching...

There is the north, she thinks, where levelling-up means Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool, and stops with the BBC effect. And then there's the other north.

We are three-quarters through October & a magnificent gilding of leaves has occurred across Eden, as if illuminators had been working in the branches...

The geese are away, so tidy in their formations overhead - a mournful desertion.

Sit to the right of the carriage, he was advised by the conductor: less scenic, but better for viewing Batty Moss and the brooding uplands Garsdale, Kirkby Stephen. The small, ingathered towns pass by, ancient ruined castles with ginger cattle grazing around their mounds, whitewashed village churches.

Article discussing the geography: https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/members-map-sarah-hall-on-places-of-significance...

Visiting pooch is unimpressed by any deviation from a strict schedule of her game, sorry Sarah Hall.

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