Meet the Author with Sarah Hall
Newton Stewart Library
7.00pm Tuesday 20th November. Contact Newton Stewart Library on 01671 403450.
Free event
One of Britain’s finest young writers will be reading from and talking about her work at Newton Stewart Library, as part of the library service/DGAA ‘Meet the Author’ series. Sarah Hall lives in Cumbria, which features largely in her work.
Her first novel ‘Haweswater’, was a passionate story built around the construction of the Haweswater Dam. It was published in 2002 and won the Commonwealth Writers First Novel Award and a Betty Trask award. She followed this in 2004 with ‘The Electric Michelangelo’, which told the story of a tattoo artist from the 1950’s until the present day and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In Newton Stewart Sarah will be focusing on her new novel ‘The Carhullan Army’. This is something of a departure as its set in the near-future. It tells the story of ‘Sister’ who escapes the Orwellian dictatorship ‘the Authority’ to search for a quasi-mythical female community, ‘The Carhullan Army’, which is rumoured to exist somewhere on the Fells. Sarah has said that her previous novels were very poetic and this one is deliberately more pared down and dramatic, but the precision of her language is a hallmark of Sarah’s writing.
Her first novel ‘Haweswater’, was a passionate story built around the construction of the Haweswater Dam. It was published in 2002 and won the Commonwealth Writers First Novel Award and a Betty Trask award. She followed this in 2004 with ‘The Electric Michelangelo’, which told the story of a tattoo artist from the 1950’s until the present day and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In Newton Stewart Sarah will be focusing on her new novel ‘The Carhullan Army’. This is something of a departure as its set in the near-future. It tells the story of ‘Sister’ who escapes the Orwellian dictatorship ‘the Authority’ to search for a quasi-mythical female community, ‘The Carhullan Army’, which is rumoured to exist somewhere on the Fells. Sarah has said that her previous novels were very poetic and this one is deliberately more pared down and dramatic, but the precision of her language is a hallmark of Sarah’s writing.
