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Sarah Hall


Born
in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1974

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Sarah Hall took a degree in English and Art History at Aberystwyth University, and began to take writing seriously from the age of twenty, first as a poet, several of her poems appearing in poetry magazines, then as a fiction-writer. She took an M Litt in Creative Writing at St Andrew's University and stayed on for a year afterwards to teach on the undergraduate Creative Writing programme.

Her first novel, Haweswater, was published in 2002. It is set in the 1930s, focuses on one family - the Lightburns - and is a rural tragedy about the disintegration of a community of Cumbrian hill-framers, due to the building of a reservoir. It won several awards, includ
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“You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.”
Sarah Hall, How to Paint a Dead Man

“Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.”
Sarah Hall, How to Paint a Dead Man

“He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of her [...] Let us open the window and see if your painting can entice the butterflies.”
Sarah Hall, How to Paint a Dead Man

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