A Line Above the Sky

A gorgeous memoir all about the great outdoors and the impulse to go to our limits * Evening Standard *
Strong stuff, satisfying and intriguing to read * Sarah Moss *
A candid and moving exploration of early motherhood…the writing is beautifully lyrical * The I *
This is a book of the seen and unseen; on being alive; on being wild; on being a woman. This book is about being a woman - both seen and unseen - alive and wild - in a world that needs new words for every single part of this. And my oh my, how Mort writes those new words. * Caught By the River *
An intimate take on motherhood and self-dissolution, and the way mountains can come to fill the voids of a life. * Economist *

Helen Mort has published three collections of poetry- Division Street (2013), winner of the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, No Map Could Show Them (2016) and The Illustrated Woman (2022). Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Forward, T. S. Eliot and Costa Prizes. She has written a novel, Black Car Burning (2019) and a short story collection, Exire (2019). Her creative non-fiction includes A Line Above The Sky (2022), winner of the Boardman Tasker Award, and Ethel (2024). She is a Professor in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield.

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