A bold and lyrical dissection of a relationship from the author of The Bass Rock, Wyld's stunning novel traces the hopes, secrets and dreams of a couple torn apart by death across generations and continents.
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: 350 g
Dimensions: 223 x 145 x 23 mm
A multilayered masterpiece... The Bass Rock is a jaw-dropping novel that confirms Wyld as one of our most gifted young writers - Observer
Her writing is precise, intense, haunting and poetic… Wyld’s writing seems to come from somewhere deep; somewhere a little big unnerving and odd. For once, the hype matches the talent - Sunday Times
A rising star of British fiction - Sunday Telegraph
A multi-generational modern gothic triumph. The Bass Rock is spectacularly well-observed, profoundly disquieting and utterly riveting. Like all Evie Wyld's work it is startlingly insightful about psychological and physical abuse. It is a haunting, masterful novel - Max Porter, author of Shy
Wyld is a writer who reconfigures the conventions of storytelling with a sure-footedness and ambition which belie her age - Spectator
The Bass Rock is wonderfully subtle and magnificently savage - Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground
This is stranger, darker and more brilliant than anything she’s written before… This is a book that will stay with you for ever – both intimate and extraordinarily ambitious - Observer, Books to Look Out For 2024*
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 discuss and to think about but it is a sad and very...
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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 grieving girlfriend still lives. They are both stricken by the...
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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’s a tricksy book stylistically, it works best in the chapters... More
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