The Echoes

The Echoes

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Hardback Published on: 01/08/2024
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The Echoes
Mesmerising
The Echoes is a book of family secrets, trauma and love. The storytelling is just masterful, with complicated characters and dynamics unfurling with the k... READ MORE
Miranda
The Echoes
Stunning
The best new book I have read this year, in several years. Checkout 19 might be the last thunderbolt of such power and clarity. I have attempted this revie... READ MORE
John - Glasgow Braehead

Synopsis

Spanning multiple generations and set between rural Australia and London, The Echoes asks what of our past can we shrug off and what is fixed forever, echoing down through the years.

Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him.

In the weeks and months before Max’s death, Hannah is haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape.

A relationship with Max seems to offer the potential of a different story, but the past refuses to stay hidden. It finds expression in the untold stories of the people she grew up with, the details of their lives she never knew and the events that broke her family apart and led her to Max.

Both a celebration and autopsy of a relationship, spanning multiple generations and set between rural Australia and London, The Echoes is a novel about love and grief, stories and who has the right to tell them. It asks what of our past can we shrug off and what is fixed forever, echoing down through the years.

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781911214403
  • Number of pages: 240
  • Weight: 348g
  • Dimensions: 223 x 142 x 23 mm

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The Echoes
Remarkable
A stunning dark, intimate, and affecting book which grabbed my attention from the first page. Recently dead Max haunts the London flat where Hannah his ... READ MORE
Simon Sleightholm
The Echoes
Echoes Of Nostalgia
Hannah and Max’s relationship was never great, but now Max is dead, still present in the flat, watching his partner, waiting for the purgatory to end. It’... READ MORE
Kev McCready
The Echoes
An engaging, unorthodox love story
Set across several timelines and two continents, The Echoes unfolds Hannah’s story, revealing what lies behind her reluctance to talk to her late partner, ... READ MORE
Susan Osborne
The Echoes
Latest novel from a serial prize winner
The Australian born, London based author Evie Wyld’s first three novels have all been prize winners – “After the Fire, A Small Voice” (John Llewellyn Rhys ... READ MORE
Graham Fulcher
The Echoes
Literally haunting
When Max dies, he becomes an unwilling ghost in the flat he shared with his now grieving girlfriend Hannah. As the narrative shifts between this present, t... READ MORE
Jackie Murrell
The Echoes
A thoughtful, sensitive exploration of the effects of family trauma.
Evie Wyld’s latest novel, ‘The Echoes’ is a thoughtful, sensitive exploration of the effects of family trauma, set in London and rural Australia. Hannah b... READ MORE
Sarah D
The Echoes
well written.
The Echoes is a well written but, to me, a sad book dealing with emotions and grief following a sudden death. Told in different timelines and from differen... READ MORE
Frances
The Echoes
Bleak and sad
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book with no obligation to review. This is a well written book which provides a lot to... READ MORE
A MC
The Echoes
A mesmerising novel that asks: what makes you you?
From the off, this book begins with a death. Loving boyfriend Max has died and he returns as a disembodied ghost to watch over his Australian girlfriend Ha... READ MORE
Huttson Lo
The Echoes
Uniquely remarkable
This novel is so much more that can ever be expressed by words. It is a tender study of humanity, relationships, mistakes that can never be erased but can... READ MORE
Victoria Castelli-MacLennan
The Echoes
Quietly devastating
A quietly devastating novel about family, relationships, and ghosts. (The kind that haunt places and people who think they can be free of the past.) Set pa... READ MORE
Hilly
The Echoes
A wryly humoured novel of love and grief
A unique multi-layered novel with multiple POVs that addresses powerful and emotive subjects in a unique and darkly humorous way. Intergenerational trauma,... READ MORE
T Edwards