High House, The

Description: 'SUFFUSED WITH JOY' Guardian, 'PROPHETIC' Daily Mail, 'BEAUTIFUL' Scotsman, 'IMMERSIVE' IMAGEPerched on a hill above a village by the sea, the high house has a mill, a vegetable garden and a barn full of supplies. Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive there one day to find it cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally. Not quite a family, they learn to live together, and care for one another. But there are limits even to what the ailing Grandy knows about how to survive, and, if the storm comes, it might not be enough. 'Deeply moving ... so grounded in reality and the ordinariness of the lives of this disparate group, that I had to read parts of it through my fingers' Good Housekeeping Books of the Year. 'Greengrass uses a future post-apocalyptic world as a perspective from which to apply the melancholic, nostalgic air of Ian Sinclair, Rachel Lichtenstein or W G Sebald to our own present. You think you have time. And then, all at once, you don't' - Irish Times 'An extraordinary, immersive read' - IMAGE 'A master observer of inter-human atmosphere' - Max Porter 'This book is completely beautiful' - Daisy Johnson 'Excellent' - Jessie Burton 'Profoundly moving, this is an incisive yet hopeful reflection on how to move forward together' - Julianne Pachico 'Greengrass has encapsulated the dignity of our individual actions and the true value of what we possess' - Lonesome Reader 'I have no qualms in saying The High House is a must read' -Bookmunch 'Haunting new novel ... Greengrass is among a growing number of novelists who are confronting this unfolding catastrophe through the young genre of climate fiction' - Guardian 'Subtle and affecting, tender and terrifying, and written in the most sumptuous and delicate prose' - Esther Freud 'A deeply moving novel set in a near-future where a climate crisis is no longer just a possibility but an imminent disaster ... This is so grounded in reality and the ordinariness of the lives of this disparate group, that I had to read parts of it through my fingers' - Joanne Finney, Good Housekeeping Books of the Year Author Biography: Jessie Greengrass spent her childhood in London and Devon. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed with her partner and children. Her collection of short stories, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, won the Edge Hill Prize 2016 and a Somerset Maugham Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Sight, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018.