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The Echoes - Evie Wyld
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The Echoes
by Evie Wyld
Evie Wyld’s The Echoes is a haunting exploration of love, loss, and the lingering impact of untold stories. Set between rural Australia and London, this atmospheric novel follows Max, who, upon his untimely death, finds himself trapped as a ghost, watching over his grieving girlfriend, Hannah. Through Max’s eyes, he realises just how little he understood about Hannah’s past, which she fled from Australia to escape. As Hannah unravels, the secrets she tried to leave behind resurface in unexpected ways, and she is forced to confront the events that fractured her family and shaped her journey to Max.
The story alternates between Max’s ghostly perspective and Hannah’s struggle to move forward, creating a profound narrative that is both intimate and sweeping. Wyld masterfully weaves themes of memory, family, and identity, capturing how the past reverberates across generations. Described as Wyld’s most ambitious work yet, The Echoes will captivate fans of evocative literary fiction.
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Blurb
Blurb
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 an 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 we can shrug off and what is fixed forever, echoing down through the years.
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