A major new novel from one of Britain's brightest literary stars

"Lee's powerful novel is an extraordinary performance: vividly written, painfully human and fully fleshing the inner lives of its characters." Sunday Times "A multivoiced epic that builds towards a stunning finale. I loved it." Observer - Books of the Year "High Dive is a fascinating look into a troubled past. In taut scene after taut scene, with a fine style and wit among the carnage, Jonathan Lee does service to history and the novel both." -- Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End "Lee is quite brilliant at excavating the disappointment of characters constantly chasing lost opportunities ... The protagonists generate a static energy, gathering charged particles of the particular ... The IRA used a long-delay detonator on the Brighton bomb and Lee employs this modus operandi himself, cleverly allowing their plot to provide his. Having planted this device we are left with the drama of waiting, a surface tension that holds the somewhat diffuse elements together. There are echoes of Beckett ... High Dive is, of course, a historical novel, detailing events that took place more than 30 years ago, yet there is always a sense of immediacy to the prose ... In the mundane, Jonathan Lee finds the deep end, where all are diving for dear life." Guardian "Jonathan Lee [is] a wordsmith of incomparable eloquence...High Dive is a work of serious and thoughtful integrity." Independent

Jonathan Lee's first novel, Who is Mr Satoshi?, was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize and shortlisted for an MJA Open Book Award in 2011. His second novel, Joy, published in 2013, was shortlisted for the Encore Award. The BBC's Culture Show programme recently featured him as being one of Britain's 'best new novelists'. He lives in New York.