The Echoes
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The Echoes
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Narrated by:
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Sebastian Humphreys
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Vivien Carter
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By:
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Evie Wyld
About this listen
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 an 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 we can shrug off and what is fixed forever, echoing down through the years.
What listeners say about The Echoes
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Kindle Customer
- 05-09-2024
Original story, beautifully told
This book tells the complicated story of one family, and illustrates how generational trauma can manifest. Scenes are so vividly described I felt I was watching a film at times, and characters brought to life flaws and all. Dark, at times funny, and heartbreakingly sad.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- kate
- 17-09-2024
An intergenerational tale of family misery..
I rarely review a book I didn't enjoy but...
...and I struggle to elucidate what it was about this tale of past and present trauma that I disliked. Maybe the split narrators of English ghost as revealed in the first clever opening line and his bereaved Australian girl-friend was a construct that simply did not work for me.
The descriptions of impoverished rural family life in a small Australian backwater were excellent. The abuse of historic parental power was chilling but the uneven plotting and choppy past/present history made me lose interest in why the modern day female protagonist, Hannah, behaved in the way she did. After the slow reveal of the depth of family depravity was eventually revealed, the tying up of loose story threads felt like a contrived "and just like that moment". Truthfully, if I hadn't been stuck on a long car journey, I wouldn't have persevered to the end.
Sadly, I also found the wonderfully clear and beautifully enunciated female voice artist's delivery irritating with individual syllables drawn out annoyingly slowly. I have since listened to her audio files and she has a lovely voice when delivering at a normal pace. I can only think that for the character of Hannah, she felt this was necessary.
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