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The Echoes

The Echoes is a masterly achievement, a work of skill and subtle empathy that really earns our attention. It will linger with me for a very long time

Precise and unforgiving… Wyld has always excelled at tension and pace, and the scattered puzzle pieces drop into place with both a feeling of horror and a strange kind of satisfaction… Nobody writes about trauma like Wyld

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

The wit of Evie Wyld is on sparkling display in the first line of her unsettling fourth novel… compulsively readable… Wyld is an uncommonly sensorial writer, relentless in the ways that she captures the bodily disgust of abusive behaviour and the burning desire to break its hereditary cycle

It takes brilliance and verve to leap into the darkness as Evie Wyld does here. What a discovery - this is the first book of her books I have read; it will certainly not be the last

Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren

Unsettling, vivid, and beautifully written

Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground

A stunning, immersive work of sharp prose, weaving intergenerational trauma and a ghost story and the complexities of love and families. Wyld gets better with each novel

I’ve loved all of Evie Wyld’s novels, but I think this may be my favourite. Like all the best ghost stories, The Echoes is also a love story. It’s funny and moving and has such intelligent things to say about family, about shared histories and grief and the ways people find to heal themselves

Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

A story about humans as they are - complicated bundles of pain, love, cruelty, cowardice, tenderness, bravery, loyalty. When the world is encouraging us to see each other as one dimensional, complex characters like those in The Echoes are necessary. And on top of all that Wyld is funny

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You

Evie Wyld is a true powerhouse, her latest novel The Echoes is unflinching in its exploration of loss, grief, historical trauma and complex relationships and families. This is an utterly compelling, vivid and powerful novel, it contains courageous love and truth, stunning fearless writing, outstanding story telling and a tremendous intimacy, this book holds a voice that sings and stays with you, haunting you, long after you have read the last page

A brilliant, satisfying novel that explores flinty and essential truths about love and loss. Full of complex, believable characters and grounded in the mysteries and frustrations of the living and the dead. Flawlessly written, intriguing and ambitious. It moved me very much

I loved this book. Evie Wyld moves effortlessly through times, places and people with a relentless, brutal, compassionate attention. I am in awe of her control over detail, emotion, and plot – and the way she shows us how we understand the personal through the local and the historical

Jenn Ashworth, author of A Kind of Intimacy

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

The Echoes is a gorgeous, wise, furious meditation on the ways in which we carry both love and pain across decades and hemispheres. Each new layer is a revelation of compassion and understanding. Wyld is brilliant on girlhood, on grief, on intimacy’s terrible costs and its funny, messy grace. This is a jewel of a novel

Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest

Evie Wyld has invented a whole new genre with The Echoes – it’s a horror where the horror isn’t in the paranormal but the everyday. All the anxiety and fear come from humans, and the lightness from a ghost. Beautiful

I absolutely devoured this…. Astonishing in the way it traces the echoes of hurt through generations of a family

A book that’ll quite literally haunt you. It is a book about love, grief and how history and our own personal histories shape us and those around us. It is also a book about the things and spaces we leave behind us in other peoples lives, whether we were a footnote, a dedication, an acknowledgement or maybe a chapter or more

Wyld does a lot of work in just over 200 pages… [the trauma plot] has become the home turf of literary fiction…but rarely has it been approached with such clever indirection

Written in an intriguing style that keeps you turning page after page… an enjoyable read

Powerful… In this gripping, upsetting but ultimately hopeful novel, Wyld’s voice rings true

This is an electrifying, moving, occasionally mordantly funny novel that coolly exhumes the darkness of its character’ troubled heats

Precise and evocative… The sections narrated by Max’s phantom are particularly enjoyable and lyrical… The Echoes is well written and affecting

Humour and tenderness lift an ambitious investigation into hidden trauma

Exquisite… The Echoes is an ambitious, often courageous novel in fractal form; voicing the harm that echoes through generations

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