‘Like all the best ghost stories, The Echoes is also a love story’ PAULA HAWKINS

‘Captivating, funny, clever’ SAMANTHA HARVEY

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

‘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.

The Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to each other.

In the early 1700s, Sarah, accused of being a witch, flees for her life.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth navigates a new house, a new husband and the strange waters of the local community.

Six decades later, the house stands empty. Viv, mourning the death of her father, catalogues Ruth’s belongings and discovers her place in the past – and perhaps a way forward.

Each woman’s choices are circumscribed by the men in their lives. But in sisterhood there is the hope of survival and new life…

WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE
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PRAISE FOR THE BASS ROCK:
‘Daring, heartfelt, explosive’ Daisy Johnson
‘A vividly imagined portrait’ Sunday Times
‘Dark, disturbing and very sophisticated’ William Boyd
‘Wonderfully subtle and magnificently savage’ Claire Fuller