Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. 'Like all the best ghost stories, The Echoes is also a love story' PAULA HAWKINS'Captivating, funny, clever' SAMANTHA HARVEY'A book that will stay with you forever' OBSERVER 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