"Jonathan Lee’s brilliant, tense new novel weaves fiction around a real event: the attempted assassination of Margaret Thatcher in Brighton in 1984. The book follows a young IRA volunteer, and the father and daughter who feature in this excerpt. Moose is the manager of the hotel in Brighton where the Prime Minister and her cabinet will stay; Freya, just out of high school, works the check-in desk, the boredom of the job broken by the occasional erotic flare with a guest or co-worker. Their relationship is the heart of the book, and this short, tender scene captures much of what defines it." - Garth Greenwell, Author of What Belongs to You

About the Author: Jonathan Lee is a British writer living in New York, where he is the Senior Editor at Catapult and a Contributing Editor for Guernica. High Dive is published by Knopf on March 8, 2016.

About the Guest Editor: Garth Greenwell's debut novel, What Belongs to You, was published by FSG in January.

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