The Echoes

A Novel

By: Evie Wyld

Narrated by: Sebastian Humphreys, Vivien Carter

From the award-winning novelist, a ravishing new novel set between London and rural Australia, both a love story and a ghost story

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

In the weeks and months before Max’s death, Hannah was haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape. A relationship with Max seemed to offer the potential of a fresh new chapter, but the past refused to stay hidden. It found expression in the untold stories of the people she grew up with, and the events that broke her family apart and led her to Max.

Both a celebration and an autopsy of a relationship, and spanning multiple generations, The Echoes is a novel about love and grief, motherhood and sisterhood, secrets and who has the right to reveal them—what of our past can be cast away and what is fixed forever, echoing down through the years.

Hard to follow storyline.

I found the story jumped around so much that it was hard to follow. The story wasn’t very engaging and never really got my attention. I had a hard time keeping the characters straight.

Nothing to keep me interested.

Too much of nothing. Told in a way that was hard to know what the actual plot was. Language was bad as well. Did not help the book.