![]() ![]() But in sisterhood there is also the possibility of survival and a new way of life. 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. ![]() Six decades later, Viv, still mourning the death of her father, is cataloguing Ruth's belongings in the now-empty house. Ruth, in the aftermath of the Second World War, is navigating a new marriage and the strange waters of the local community. Sarah, accused of being a witch, is fleeing for her life. And across the centuries, the fates of three women are inextricably linked to this place and to each other. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has always borne witness to the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. "The lives of three women weave together across centuries in the dazzling new book from the Granta Best of Young British Novelist, author of All the Birds, Singing. ![]()
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