High House

Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

149 kr

Skickas torsdag 9/10

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

‘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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-03-17
Mått129 x 198 x 24 mm
Vikt0 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagSwift Press
ISBN9781800750913

Tillhör följande kategorier

Modern och samtida romaner inom Skonlitteratur

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.

‘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