AN AWARD-WINNING author from Kendal will launch her latest novel at the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus next week.

Sarah Hall will launch her new book Burntcoat on Monday with an event at the university.

The novel has already received good reviews and was recently chosen as The Guardian’s book of the week.

The Guardian’s Lara Feigel said: “At once epic and miniature, the story of two lovers cut off from a disintegrating world ... This terrible, ambivalent closeness takes all of Hall’s magnificent powers as a novelist to describe. I was left feeling that only she could write it ... The hope in this sparse, sumptuous, brilliant book is that the work of finding meaning and truth can be continued even in extremity, even as art and love slip away.”

Hall is the only author to have been shortlisted four times for the BBC National Short Story Award and to have won the award twice.

She has published three award-winning collections.