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The acclaimed novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic tattoo-artist Eliot Riley. Thirsty for new experiences, he departs for America and finds himself in the riotous world of the Coney Island boardwalk, where he sets up his own business as ´The Electric Michelangelo´. In this carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak-shows, Cy becomes enamoured with Grace, a mysterious immigrant and circus performer who commissions him to cover her entire body in tattooed eyes.

Hugely atmospheric, exotic and familiar, The Electric Michelangelo is a love story and an exquisitely rendered portrait of seaside resorts on opposite sides of the Atlantic by one of the most uniquely talented novelists of her generation.

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´The torrential Lawrentian flow of her prose offers many heady pleasures.´ The Times

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Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of five novels - Haweswater , The Electric Michelangelo , The Carhullan Army, How to Paint a Dead Man, and The Wolf Border - which have won numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and two Man Booker Prize nominations. Hall´s first story collection, The Beautiful Indifference , won the Portico Prize and the Edge Hill prize, and was also shortlisted for the Frank O´Connor Prize. The first story in the collection, ´Butchers Perfume´, was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, a prize that Hall won in 2013 with ´Mrs Fox´. Most recently, Hall edited the Faber anthology Sex & Death. She is a fellow at the Royal Society of Literature, and will be a judge for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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