Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. 'A book that will stay with you forever'
OBSERVER'Sharp prose weaving intergenerational trauma and a ghost story' SINÉAD GLEESON'It
takes brilliance to leap into the darkness' ANNE ENRIGHT'My favourite Wyld novel' PAULA
HAWKINSAs 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.
