The Echoes

From the award-winning novelist,a ravishing new novel set between London and rural Australiaboth a love story and a ghost story Max didnΓÇÖt believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Nowas a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still herehe watches his girlfriendHannahlost 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 MaxΓÇÖs deathHannah was haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape. A relationship with Max seemed to offer the potential of a fresh new chapterbut the past refused to stay hidden. It found expression in the untold stories of the people she grew up withand the events that broke her family apart and led her to Max. Both a celebration and an autopsy of a relationshipand spanning multiple generationsThe Echoes is a novel about love and griefmotherhood and sisterhoodsecrets and who has the right to reveal themΓÇöwhat of our past can be cast away and what is fixed foreverechoing down through the years.