Philippa Conlon: Polymers are everywhere (opens in new tab)

The protagonist of Hall’s latest book is the wind itself. Helm, the only named wind in the British Isles, blows through Cumbria’s Eden Valley, where Hall was raised and where much of her writing, including The Carhullan Army, is set. Like the wind in her short story ‘Then Later, His Ghost’, Helm is now threatened by climate change.