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The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling new book from Evie Wyld, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist

Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries borne witness to the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries, the fates of three women are inextricably linked to this place and to each other.

Sarah, accused of being a witch, is fleeing for her life.

Ruth, in the aftermath of the Second World War, is navigating a new marriage and the strange waters of the local community.

Six decades later, Viv, still mourning the death of her father, is cataloguing Ruth’s belongings in the now-empty house.

As each woman’s story unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear that their choices are circumscribed, in ways big and small, by the men who seek to control them. But in sisterhood there is also the possibility of survival and a new way of life. Intricately crafted and compulsively readable, The Bass Rock burns bright with anger and heart – a devastating indictment of the violence that men have inflicted on women throughout the ages.

© Evie Wyld 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

Like Ali Smith’s novels crossed with the TV series Fleabag… [The Bass Rock is] a vividly imagined portrait… There’s much to admire in its little miracles of observation… [Evie Wyld] knows how to maintain suspense, what to withhold and when to reveal it — right up to the spine-chilling last line.
Sunday Times
A multilayered masterpiece; vivid, chilling, leaping jubilantly through space and time, it’s a jaw dropping novel that confirms Wyld as one of our most gifted young writers.
Observer
Wondrous... Expertly chilling... Wyld consistently entertains, juggling the pleasures of several different genres.
New York Times
Searingly controlledpsychologically fearless andbitterly funny. Wyld is a genius of contrasting voices and revealed connections, while her foreshadowings are so subtle that the book demands – and eminently repays – a second read.
Guardian
A rising star of British fictionWyld’s slow, controlled build-up of dread is excellent… Most powerful of all is Wyld’s evocation of a hairs-on-the-neck sense of foreboding when women interact with volatile men.
Sunday Telegraph, *Novel of the Week*
Powerful, intensely absorbingWyld is as gifted as Phoebe Waller-Bridge at capturing the hilarious, the excruciating and the absurd.
Daily Mail
Evie Wyld’s tremendous new novel, The Bass Rock, is a powerful and beautifully written narrative of male violence and the three women who endured it.
Daily Telegraph
[A] menacing, modern-Gothic novel... Balancing a superbly controlled sense of dread with fierce anger, Wyld's intense novel is one that will get under your skin and stay there.
Tatler *What to read right now*
Evie Wyld is the author of two excellent novels but she moves up a gear with her third… Wyld’s superbly written…stories mirror and haunt each other in shockingly satisfying ways… Each of these separately lonely women are startlingly well drawn, yet the threads running through their lives are universalThe Bass Rock deserves to win prizes.
Metro
Evie Wyld's third novel The Bass Rock was...not to be missed, it's as good as her first two excellent novels.
New Statesman *Books of the Year*

User Reviews

Book 3.0
Narration 4.0
Author Evie Wyld
Narrator Julie Graham, Kirsty Strain, Ross Anderson
Duration 9 hours and 57 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473578913
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Availability GB, IE
Rating
3.0 (1 review)
Narration
4.0 (1 review)

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