PRAISE FOR THE HIGH HOUSE

‘By the end I felt a tightening in my chest. Not only admiration for what I had read, but fear, which I had swallowed down, one calm and often beautiful sentence after another. The High House managed to shock my system in a way that the attention-grabbing antics of Extinction Rebellion have not done’ The Scotsman

‘I have no qualms in saying The High House is a must read’ Bookmunch

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

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

‘Will delight readers who relish the ambition and originality of her work, and leave them pondering its ideas about climate change, family, inequality and the ethical dilemmas that are posed by a crisis’ I Paper

‘A book suffused with the joy and fulfilment of raising a child. The High House stands out, for Greengrass understands that perhaps the best writers and artists can hope for no is to help us admit, accept and process our collective failure to act’ Guardian

‘Chillingly articulate’ The Telegraph

‘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’ The Irish Times

‘The High House is an extraordinary, immersive read’ IMAGE

‘Greengrass has encapsulated the dignity of our individual actions and the true value of what we possess’ Lonesome Reader

PRAISE FOR JESSIE GREENGRASS::

'Greengrass is undoutedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt' AL Kennedy

'An extremely thoughtful and meticulous writer' Sunday Times

'She has a Mantel-esque way with metaphor, in which clarity of the image illuminates plot and theme' Daily Telegraph

'A writer who clearly has considerable gifts' Financial Times

'A distinctive new voice in fiction' Independent

'Stunning' Guardian

'Remarkable and affecting' Literary Review