The Echoes
‘One of our most distinctive and vital voices’ Daily Mail
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Aug '24
£18.99
This title is due to be published on 1st August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Set between rural Australia and London, The Echoes is a story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future
'A book that will stay with you forever' OBSERVER
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.
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* *
A strange and wondrous novel, my book of the year by a mile. Wyld is a literary magician, doing more in the space of a few pages than many authors manage over the course of their careers -- Alex Preston, author of Winchelsea
Wyld is a writer who reconfigures the conventions of storytelling with a sure-footedness and ambition which belie her age * Spectator *
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 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
The Bass Rock is wonderfully subtle and magnificently savage -- Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground
ISBN: 9781911214403
Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 25mm
Weight: 400g
240 pages