High Dive: A Novel

High Dive: A Novel

<b><b>**Named a Best Book of the Year by the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle**</i></b><br><br>“Devastating . . . Inspired . . . We make so many complex emotional investments in the lives of Lee’s characters that it takes a monk’s restraint not to flip to the very end of the book before you get there.” —Jennifer Senior, <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>In September 1984, a bomb was planted at the Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Brighton, England, set to explode in twenty-four days when the British prime minister and her entire cabinet would be staying there. <i>High Dive</i> not only takes us inside this audacious assassination attempt—a decisive act of violence on the world stage—but also imagines its way into a group of unforgettable characters. Nimbly weaving together fact and fiction, comedy and tragedy, the story switches among the perspectives of Dan, a young IRA explosives expert; Moose, a former star athlete gone to seed, who is now the deputy hotel manager; and Freya, his teenage daughter, trying to decide what comes after high school. Over the course of a mere four weeks, as the prime minister’s arrival draws closer, each of their lives will be transformed forever.  <br><br> A bold, astonishingly intimate novel of laughter and heartbreak, <i>High Dive</i> is a moving portrait of clashing loyalties, guilt and regret, and how individuals become the grist of history.