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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.
<p>‘Greengrass steeps us deeply in her <strong>wild, watery setting</strong> … its prophetic vision fixes the attention’ - <em>Daily Mail</em></p>
<p>‘Full of <strong>elegant, resonant sentences</strong> about human fallibility, complacency, selfishness and our <strong>unquenchable capacity for love</strong>’ - <em>Sunday Times</em></p>
<p>‘This <strong>brave, important</strong> and <strong>exquisitely written</strong> novel is a frightening one. But even the darkest times are lit by moments of <strong>beauty and grace</strong>, and the <strong>reader is uplifted</strong> 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</p>
‘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
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
‘The novel’s verisimilitude is striking; like Kazuo Ishiguro’s speculative visions, it’s done with restraint and propelled by finely observed dynamics’ - Spectator
'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
'A slow-burning, beautifully written debut' - Irish Times
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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.