Jessie Greengrass on the High House

'All the way through the book, it should feel like there's going to be some kind of ending which will enable a potential future'


What a pleasure to welcome Jessie Greengrass to talk about the High House! (Buy here). We talk about the climate crisis and writing about the end times.


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Rippling Points:

• Is this the end for me, you, all of us? What's it like writing about characters and limited horizons?
• The history of flooding: researching local and national history for lessons about the past and the future.

Reference Points:

Books

• Sight, Jessie's first novel
• An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, Jessie's collection of short stories
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Alice Oswald.
• Liable to Flood (1974) - J.R Ravensdale

We also discussed the Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, and the 1953 North Sea Flood which Jessie researched for the novel.