The Echoes

Max didn''t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. ''A masterly achievement'' SUNDAY TIMES ''A book that will stay with you forever'' OBSERVER ''Precise and unforgiving'' GUARDIAN ''Compulsively readable'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''It takes brilliance to leap into the darkness'' ANNE ENRIGHT ''My favourite Wyld novel'' PAULA HAWKINS As a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max 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, The Echoes is a novel about stories and who has the right to tell them, asking what of our past can we shrug off and what is fixed forever.

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Evie Wyld is the award-winning author of four novels and one graphic novel. She has won the Betty Trask Award, Miles Franklin Award, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Encore Award, Jerwood Fiction Prize and the European Union Prize. In 2013 she was included in Granta's once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and helps run an independent bookshop in Peckham called Review.

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Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. 'Like all the best ghost stories, The Echoes is also a love story' PAULA HAWKINS'Captivating, funny, clever' SAMANTHA HARVEY'A book that will stay with you forever' OBSERVER As a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. In the 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. Yet the past refuses to stay hidden. A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN AND DAILY MAIL'A powerful love story . . . A masterly achievement'SUNDAY TIMES'I absolutely devoured this . . . Astonishing'JON McGREGOR'What a discovery'ANNE ENRIGHT'Compulsively readable'FINANCIAL TIMES

Zusammenfassung
The Echoes is a masterly achievement, a work of skill and subtle empathy that really earns our attention. It will linger with me for a very long time Sunday Times