The water is rising around a coastal hideaway in which five people, including a small child, are trapped, as civilisation is engulfed by flood.
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4.0 rating based on 3,239 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1800750072
ISBN-13: 9781800750074
Goodreads: 55409229
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Published: //
Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static
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.
A stunning novel of the extraordinary and the everyday, The High House explores how we get used to change that once seemed unthinkable, how we place the needs of our families against the needs of others - and it asks us who, if we had to, we would save.
4.0 rating based on 3,239 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1800750072
ISBN-13: 9781800750074
Goodreads: 55409229
Author(s): Publisher:
Published: //
Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static
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.
A stunning novel of the extraordinary and the everyday, The High House explores how we get used to change that once seemed unthinkable, how we place the needs of our families against the needs of others - and it asks us who, if we had to, we would save.
