Polymers are everywhere: Sarah Hall's ‘Helm’
Philippa Conlon, 25 June 2026
The world is often just about to end in Sarah Hall’s fiction. In The Carhullan Army (2007), England is in a state of political and ecological collapse. ‘You don’t believe the world can really be broken or that anything terrible will happen during your lifetime,’ the narrator reflects. But the unimaginable soon begins to feel inevitable: ‘You just know when the...
