The Bass Rock

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Author
Evie Wyld
Publisher
Penguin
Genre
Fiction
Released
26 March, 2020
ISBN
9781911214397

The Bass Rock

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Synopsis

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

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Powerful and Beautifully Written: Read an Extract from The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

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17 February 2020

Powerful and Beautifully Written: Read an Extract from The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

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    10 February 2020

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      4 February 2020

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          The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld is Compelling, Powerful and Exquisitely Written

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          3 February 2020

          The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld is Compelling, Powerful and Exquisitely Written

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              Evie Wyld
              About the author

              Evie Wyld

              Evie Wyld grew up in Australia and the UK. She now runs Review, a small independent bookshop in London. Her first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award. In 2011 she was listed as one of the Culture Show's Best New British Novelists. She was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 2013 she was listed as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Evie's second novel, All the Birds, Singing, was published in 2013. It was longlisted for the 2014 Stella Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She is the winner of the 2013 Encore Award, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and the 2014 Miles Franklin Award.

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