Jessie Greengrass

Jessie Greengrass spent her childhood in London and Devon. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, with her partner and children. Her collection of short stories, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It , won the Edge Hill Prize and Somerset Maugham Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Sight , was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. The High House is her most recent novel.

Jessie Greengrass spent her childhood in London and Devon. She studied philosophy in Cambridge and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, with her partner and children. Her collection of short stories, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It , won the Edge Hill Prize and Somerset Maugham Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Sight , was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. The High House is her most recent novel. See less