<b>Like Ali Smith's novels crossed with the TV series <i>Fleabag</i></b>... [<b><i>The Bass Rock</i> is</b>] <b>a vividly imagined portrait</b>... There's much to admire in its <b>little miracles of observation</b>... [Evie Wyld] knows how to maintain suspense, what to withhold and when to reveal it - <b>right up to the spine-chilling last line</b>. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * Sunday Times *<br /><b>A multilayered masterpiece</b>; vivid, chilling, leaping jubilantly through space and time,<b> it's a jaw dropping novel that confirms Wyld as one of our most gifted young writers.</b> -- Alex Preston * Observer *<br /><b>Wondrous</b>... <b>Expertly chilling</b>... <b>Wyld consistently entertains, juggling the pleasures of several different genres. </b> -- John Williams * New York Times *<br /><b>Searingly controlled</b>...<b>psychologically fearless</b> <b>and</b>...<b>bitterly funny. Wyld is a genius</b> of contrasting voices and revealed connections, while her foreshadowings are so subtle that <b>the book demands - and eminently repays - a second read</b>. -- Justine Jordan * Guardian *<br /><b>A rising star of British fiction</b>... <b>Wyld's slow, controlled build-up of dread is excellent</b>... Most powerful of all is Wyld's evocation of a hairs-on-the-neck sense of foreboding when women interact with volatile men. -- Francesca Carington * Sunday Telegraph, *Novel of the Week* *<br /><b>Powerful, intensely absorbing</b>... <b>Wyld is as gifted as Phoebe Waller-Bridge </b>at capturing the hilarious, the excruciating and the absurd. -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail *<br /><b>Evie Wyld's tremendous new novel, <i>The Bass Rock</i>, is a powerful and beautifully written</b> narrative of male violence and the three women who endured it. -- William Boyd * Daily Telegraph *<br />[A] menacing, modern-Gothic novel... Balancing a<b> superbly controlled </b>sense of dread with fierce anger,<b> Wyld's intense novel is one that will get under your skin and stay there.</b> * Tatler *What to read right now* *<br /><b>Evie Wyld is the author of two excellent novels but she moves up a gear with her third</b>... Wyld's <b>superbly written</b>...stories mirror and haunt each other in <b>shockingly satisfying</b> ways... Each of these separately lonely women are <b>startlingly well drawn</b>, yet the threads running through their lives are <b>universal</b>... <b><i>The Bass Rock</i> deserves to win prizes</b>. -- Claire Allfree * Metro *<br /><b>Evie Wyld's third novel <i>The Bass Rock</i> was...not to be missed, it's as good as her first two excellent novels.</b> -- William Boyd * New Statesman *Books of the Year* *