The High House by Jessie GreengrassMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Set in England in the near future, at the edge of world catastrophe caused by rising oceans and devastating storms. Afterwards, years later three people survived, brother and half-sister and another woman. The siblings are nearly 20 years apart. Yet the bulk of the novel is of the past, how these three came to be where they are and what happened to the parents.
I enjoyed the writing style, with the exception the timeline and how it was laid out. The book moves toward the event with what came before and after laid out, sometimes jumping too frequently and without a marker of where in time it is exactly. I don't mind non-linear books, but when there is this constancy without letting the reader know what is going on, makes for some confusion. Yet it really didn't detract overall.
The book leaves many unanswered questions, but what is provided is enough when reached the end of the book. It's not a happy book, and provides little hope. Yet within their family there is growth.
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