Book Review

The White Rock – Intriguing story jumps between eras on a small Mexican island

English author Anna Hope has written a beguiling four-part story in which the very essence of time seems to turn back on itself

Anna Hope: her fourth novel is an intelligent, thought-provoking read. Picture: Boris Conte

The English author Anna Hope’s fourth novel is a story of four parts centred on the White Rock, a small, craggy island just off Mexico’s Pacific coast that is sacred to its indigenous people.

We begin in 2020 with “the writer”, a British woman travelling there with her husband from whom she’s separating and their young child in a van full of strangers. There’s a tenuous connection to the next story about an American rock ...