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Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Novel Award
In this powerful highly anticipated novel from an awardwinning author four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster
Perched on a sloping hill set away from a small town by the sea the High House has a tide pool and a mill a vegetable garden and most importantly a barn full of supplies Caro Pauly Sally and Grandy are safe so far from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has perhaps already destroyed everything else But for how long
Caro and her younger halfbrother Pauly arrive at the High House after her father and stepmother fall victim to a faraway climate disasterbut not before they call and urge Caro to leave London In their new home a converted summer house cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter Sally the two pairs learn to live together Yet there are limits to their safety limits to the supplies limits to what Grandythe former village caretaker a man who knows how to do everythingcan teach them as his health fails
A searing novel that takes on parenthood sacrifice love and survival under the threat of extinction The High House is a stunning emotionally precise novel about what can be salvaged at the end of the world
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