Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers

Jessie Greengrass on the High House


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'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.

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