The High House: Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award

‘Greengrass steeps us deeply in her wild, watery setting … its prophetic vision fixes the attention’ - Daily Mail

‘Full of elegant, resonant sentences about human fallibility, complacency, selfishness and our unquenchable capacity for love’ - Sunday Times

‘This brave, important and exquisitely written novel is a frightening one. But even the darkest times are lit by moments of beauty and grace, and the reader is uplifted by Greengrass’s conviction that salvation lies not in competing with one another to survive but in uniting to help those we love’ - Sigrid Nunez

‘SUFFUSED WITH JOY’ Guardian, ‘PROPHETIC’ Daily Mail, ‘BEAUTIFUL’ Scotsman, ‘IMMERSIVE’ IMAGE

Perched 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

• | Author: Jessie Greengrass
• | Publisher: Swift Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 17, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781800750913
• | ISBN-10: 1800750919