Sarah Hall Books in Order

In a remote Lake District village, plans for a reservoir threaten a way of life that has endured for centuries. An affair between the visiting waterworks representative and a local woman deepens the upheaval into personal scandal.

Tattoo artist Cy Parks leaves an English seaside town for Coney Island between the world wars. Amid performers, carnival spectacle, and outsiders, he finds an enigmatic circus woman whose body becomes his canvas while her inner life remains elusive.

In a future England governed by authoritarian controls over reproduction and daily life, a woman called Sister escapes her marriage. Seeking refuge with a remote community of women, she must decide how far she will go to resist oppression.

A dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator form the four intertwined strands of this novel. Their experiences across nearly fifty years explore how making and seeing art shape a life.

These seven stories follow people confronting unsettling desires and emotional crises across Cumbria, London, and distant landscapes. Frustrated relationships, grief, and the tensions of the body expose the darker impulses beneath apparently familiar lives.

Zoologist Rachel Caine returns from Idaho to her native Lake District to consider an earl's plan to reintroduce wolves. Public resistance, political interests, and renewed family ties complicate a project that also begins changing her own life.

Nine stories explore female experience, desire, and the unstable boundaries of ordinary life. A wife becomes a fox, a social worker encounters an unusual foster child, and a new mother meets someone from her romantic past.

These stories move between Turkish forests, Cumbrian villages, and imagined transformations as their characters confront love, mortality, and identity. Folktale and speculative fiction open unfamiliar paths through lives shaped by memory, resistance, and difficult choices.

As a deadly virus spreads through an unnamed British city, sculptor Edith Harkness isolates in her studio with a lover she barely knows. Their enclosed world becomes a place to confront desire, memory, vulnerability, and the uncertain future.

A fierce wind moving through northern England connects people across centuries, from ancient tribes to engineers and farmers. In the present, scientist Selima Sutar fears pollution may destroy the force that generations have tried to understand and control.