The Bass Rock
A Novel
WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE • ONE OF VOGUE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The lives of three women weave together across centuries in this dazzling and empowering portrait of their resilience through the ages.
Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has always 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 one another: 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…
EVIE WYLD is the award-winning author of four novels and one graphic novel. She has won the Betty Trask Prize, Miles Franklin Literary Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the European Union Prize for Literature. In 2013 she was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and she lives in London.