![]() ![]() Her second novel, The High House, was published in April 2021. Sight was shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, longlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize and shortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Greengrass includes biographical stories of several people including the Lumière brothers, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Röntgen and John Hunter, to highlight the book's central themes of reflection and analysis. It follows a woman, who stays nameless throughout the novel, while she is pregnant with her second child. ![]() In 2018, she published her first novel, called Sight. The Independent described The Account of the Decline of the Great Auk as "a highly original collection from a distinctive new voice in fiction." It won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She published a collection of short stories called An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It in 2015. Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge and London and now lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection. Jessie Greengrass (born 1982) is a British author. ![]()
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