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The high house : a novel / Jessie Greengrass.
Francesca is Caro's stepmother, and Pauly's mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high house was once her holiday home; now looked after by locals Grandy and Sally, she has turned it into an ark, for when the time comes. The mill powers the generator; the orchard is carefully pruned; the greenhouse has all its glass intact. Almost a family, but not quite, they plant, store seed, and watch the weather carefully.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982180119 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1982180110 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 255 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2021
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| General Note: | "Originally published by Great Britain in 2021 by Swift Press"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Families > Fiction. Climatic changes > Fiction. Life change events > Fiction. Preparedness > Fiction. Survivalism > Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Dystopian fiction. Apocalyptic fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | GREEN J (Text) | 33126020074310 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Trying to make a home in the midst of an environmental disaster, Caro, her younger half-brother, and High House's caretaker and his daughter fight to stay alive as the rising waters threaten to engulf the whole town. - Baker & Taylor
Trying to make a home in the midst of an environmental disaster, Caro, her younger half-brother, and High Houseâs caretaker and his daughter fight to stay alive as the rising waters threaten to engulf the whole town. 60,000 first printing. - Simon and Schuster
Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Novel Award
In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning 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 half-brother, Pauly, arrive at the High House after her father and stepmother fall victim to a faraway climate disasterâbut 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 Grandyâthe former village caretaker, a man who knows how to do everythingâcan 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.