The White Rock
- Author Anna Hope
- Narrator Naomi Wirthner, Kyle Soller, Anna Hope
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 9 hours and 1 minute
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place.
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What to expect
In a spellbinding narrative of sacrifice and survival, chaos and connection, four characters are caught up in the tides of history over three centuries and drawn to the sacred White Rock of San Blas off the coast of Mexico.
In 2020 an Englishwoman travels to give thanks for her child, a singer in 1969 runs from the law, from his rabid fans and an America burning with the fever of the Vietnam War, two Yoeme sisters are torn from their homeland at the start of the twentieth century, and in 1775 a Spanish Lieutenant prepares to set sail from the White Rock to continue the conquest of the Pacific coast.
The White Rock is a breathtaking novel about what happens when the stories we have lived by can no longer keep us safe.
Critics Review
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Precise and perceptive … Deeply satisfying … We may struggle to find hope, Hope tells us, but it is there in the landscape, in faith and memory and ritual, in the ancient unchanging silences that persist’
Guardian -
An eco-novel you actually want to read … She’s an assured author with a knack for an arresting image … It leaves you with a gentle sense that things keep going
The Times -
Its narrative sweep is capacious … It has ambition to match, musing on freedom and reciprocity, on the redemptive power of storytelling and the sustaining force of ritual … Demonstrating impressive stylistic verve
Observer -
Mesmerising … Imaginative … Among its many impressive elements is Hope’s handling of the past … Her greatest talent is in getting under the skin of her characters … There is a subtle plangency in this powerful portrait of human folly and ferocity
The Herald -
Deeply moving … I, for one, hope we hear plenty more from her
i news -
Full of wisdom about the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nature of our lives
Good Housekeeping
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