by Evie Wyld · Actes Sud Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782330161286
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«Bass Rock» is the novel by Evie Wyld translated into French by Mireille Vignol, published by Actes Sud Editions in paperback (336 pages, in French).
The action follows three women from North Berwick, Scotland, marked by male violence. The work is a novel of gothic atmosphere, populated with spirits and ghosts, addressing toxic masculinity and female solidarity.
The work is translated from English; the original novel, The Bass Rock, was published in 2020 and won the Stella Prize in 2021. This French edition was published in 2022.
For readers of literary and historical fiction and book clubs interested in narratives with female protagonists and Scottish settings.
Evelyn Rose Strange "Evie" Wyld is an English author. Several of her novels are set in Australia, where she spent holidays with her grandparents as a child, and she has won several Australian literary awards. Her first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 2009, and her second novel, All the Birds, Singing, won the Encore Award in 2013 and the Miles Franklin Award in 2014. Her third novel, The Bass Rock, won the Stella Prize in 2021.
