Jessie Greengrass's Novel The High House: A Saga of Resilience in the Face of Climate Catastrophe

The High House, a 2021 novel by the well- acclaimed British author Jessie Greengrass, is an engrossing work of fiction in the category of climate catastrophe. It is a novel with significant lessons for humanity through its depiction of a post-apocalyptic climate change in its narrative of a close-knit family with two departed parents, two surviving kids along with two caretakers. The protagonist of the novel named Francesca, is a renowned climate change activist with a penchant for accurate predictions about climate change. Unfortunately, she along with her husband falls a victim to a raging storm but before her death she ensures that her children seek refuge in a bluff side home, a High House, in an isolated setting by the seaside. The inhabitants of this house find themselves struggling against an inevitable environmental crisis which no matter how much they try to look askance from, is a glaring truth ready to envelope them in a doom. The present research article highlights the fact that global environmental crisis is nearer than we imagine and it provides important lessons for humanity that we need to pay heed to in order to survive. The paper examines resilience shown in the face of climate catastrophe by the characters of the novel.