This is stranger, darker and more brilliant than anything shes 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* *
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 -- Sinead Gleeson, author of Hagstone
Ive loved all of Evie Wylds novels, but I think this may be my favourite. Like all the best ghost stories, The Echoes is also a love story. Its 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 -- Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death
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 -- Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti
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 -- Alex Preston, author of Winchelsea
