Helen Mort
British poet and novelist best known for the prize-shortlisted poetry collection Division Street (2013) and the novel Black Car Burning (2019); a former Derbyshire Poet Laureate and recipient of several early-career poetry awards.
Books
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1. Black Car Burning
A polyphonic portrait of contemporary Sheffield and the Peak District, it traces the intersecting lives of a young police officer, her partner, and others bound by the city’s crags and roads. As institutional scandals shadow the force and mistrust seeps into intimate bonds, the characters navigate grief, desire, and the pull of risk, testing the limits of loyalty and the meanings of responsibility, freedom, and love.