Sudden Traveller

*WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2020*

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE



A Guardian, Financial Times and Irish Times Book of the Year



'The queen of dark short fiction.' Guardian



'Astonishing, miraculous, a gift.' Daisy Johnson



'The best short story writer in Britain.' Spectator



In Turkish forests or rain-drenched Cumbrian villages, characters walk, drive, dream and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journey through life and death. Radical, charged with a transformative, elemental power, each of these stories invites us to stand at the very edge of our possible selves.



Includes the story 'The Grotesques', winner of the BBC Short Story Award, 2020.



Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. Twice nominated for the Man Booker prize, she is the award-winning author of five novels and two short-story collections - The Beautiful Indifference, which won the Edge Hill and Portico prizes, and Madame Zero, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize, and winner of the East Anglian Book Award. She is currently the only author to be four times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, which she won in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox' and in 2020 with 'The Grotesques'.