FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BALLROOM AND EXPECTATION
'Poetic, philosophical and wildly captivating... I swam in this
book and didn't want to come up for air' Emma Jane Unsworth, author
of Animals and Adults ___________________ They are separating, she
and her husband, after two decades together. This fact is new. Only
really a fact for a few weeks or so. Before that it was a
possibility - one potential outcome among many. But now it appears
to be, unequivocally, the case. There are many ways of telling the
tale ... There are many different sides to every story ... The
White Rock stands, ancient and sacred, off the Pacific coast of
Mexico. Four people, across four centuries, each navigating
ruptures to the world they know, are irresistibly drawn to it. A
British writer travels in 2020 with her husband and young daughter
to give thanks for the birth of their child. She looks to the White
Rock for answers, even as her faith in her marriage, and the future
itself, is unravelling. An American rock star in 1969 is in the
final act of his self-destruction. On the run from the law, from
his rabid fans and an America burning with the fever of the Vietnam
War, he washes up at the edge of Mexico, hoping to lose, or maybe
find himself. A Yoeme girl is torn from her homeland at the turn of
the twentieth century and taken by force to the coast. As her
future is recast in the name of progress and power, she turns to
the stories of her people, to resist, and to survive. And in 1775 a
young Spanish naval officer, preparing to set sail from the White
Rock to continue the conquest of the Pacific coast, appears to lose
his grip on reality, with far-reaching and fatal consequences. And
as they each find themselves at the end of the story they have
lived by, their tales echo, breathtakingly, through time . . .
___________________ 'So bold and wild, but controlled and fierce.
It reminded me of Cloud Atlas, but it's very much itself. Stunning'
Russell T. Davies, writer of It's A Sin 'Absolutely a story for our
times, and a fiercely important one, too' Clover Stroud, author of
The Red of my Blood 'I loved it . . . It is full of wisdom,
intricate and emotional, and it will linger in my head for a long
time' Dave Haslam, author of Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor
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