Collected's 24in24 - Emma recommends... The Echoes - Evie Wyld

Emma recommends... A jigsaw of a novel - three timeframes spliced with individual vignettes - about personal, familial, and national legacies of trauma, sisterly love, and those BIG questions we all face in our 30s... Complex, poignant, and - crucially - full of warmth and humour. Part-narrated by a ghost, for heaven's sake! Loved it.

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Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. 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.