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Male violence pulses through Evie Wyld’s The Bass Rock

28 March 2020

9:00 AM

28 March 2020

9:00 AM

The Bass Rock Evie Wyld

Cape, pp.355, 16.99

‘It’s a woman’s thing, creation,’ says Sarah,a girl accused of witchcraft in 18th-century Scotland, in one of the three storylines in Evie Wyld’s powerful new novel. Sarah is pregnant, having been raped and nearly killed. She is looking at a piece of sacking sewn by a sister and mother, and continues: ‘You can see how they felt in each stitch, you can hear the words they spoke to each other and into the cloth.’

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