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The High House
[Paperback - 2022]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Swift Press | ISBN: 9781800750913 | Pages: 288
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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

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.

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