The High House
Jessie Greengrass, £14.99, 288pp, Swift Press
What do we know about Noah’s Ark? Rather a lot, actually. We know its dimensions (300 cubits long and 50 cubits wide, making it roughly the size of an aircraft carrier), its construction material (gopher wood sealed with pitch) and its ventilation system (a door in the east-facing side and a skylight). We also know that it carried enough animal and human stock to replenish the world after the Great Flood. In Jessie Greengrass’s new novel The High House, the house of the title becomes an ark as a second great flood engulfs the world – only this time, there is no hope of the waters subsiding and a new world being built afresh.
