The Bass Rock - Evie Wyld Audiobook

Written by Evie Wyld
Read by Julie Graham, Ross Anderson, Kristy Strain
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: September 1, 2020
Duration: 09:56:21

The lives of three women weave together across centuries in this dazzling new novel.

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

Ruth, in the aftermath of World War II, 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 cataloging Ruth’s belongings in Ruth’s 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 love and fury—a devastating indictment of violence against women and an empowering portrait of their resilience through the ages.

”In the mid-twentieth century, Ruth tries to settle into “the big house” in a Scottish village with her new husband and his two young sons, contending with the pristine image of her husband’s late wife and the bizarre, controlling local reverend, who appears everywhere. Two generations later, in the present, fortysomething Viv sorts through Ruth’s affairs in the now-empty home. Aimless and struggling, Viv meets a surprising new friend and invites her to stay in the damp, old house. A lesser, longer-ago story line involves a young woman taken in by a grief-stricken family after being badly beaten and accused of being a witch…..
It’s hard to tell where Wyld’s atmospheric, gothic-laced story is heading and hard to stop reading. Each in her world, the women sense ghostly presences, rotten smells, foreboding nature, and other reminders of their impermanence. Overlapping and echoing, their stories demonstrate the ways women are hemmed in and harmed by the whims of men, as well as the deep recesses of strength and imagination required to transcend them…. “Booklist, 2020

A strange book and even the numbering of the chapters is different. There are seven parts and the chapters are numbered: one, two, three, two, one, then on to the next part.