Other Echoes
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446403648
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

Other Echoes

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1 Feb 2011
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3 Mar 2014
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When recovering from an illness, Flora tries to make sense of her childhood in Borneo. A beautifully drawn picture from an acclaimed author.

Other Echoes is the delicate and sensitive story of a young woman's growing self-awareness after revisiting her past. Flora is eighteen and recovering from an illness in the sanatorium at her boarding school. To while away the time, she starts to write down the story of her childhood - how at nine years old, she moved to Borneo with her parents, and encountered people and events shaped by the tragedies of the Second World War. In making sense of her own memories, Flora uncovers the ideas and emotions that make her the person she is today.
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446403648
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
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About the author

Adèle Geras

ADELE GERAS was born in Jerusalem and travelled widely as a child. She started writing over twenty-five years ago and has published more than 80 titles. Ithaka was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Chirldren's Book Award. She lives in Manchester with her husband and has two grown-up daughters and two grandchildren.

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The Secret Lives of Numbers
The Six Swan Brothers: A Magic Beans Story
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Pictures Of The Night : Egerton Hall Trilogy 3
Happy Ever After
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Praise for Other Echoes

The book was very good and sad in places

Education Otherwise

"Geras' writing is surefooted and subtly crafted, and this is an intelligent, sensitive piece of fiction about poignant emotions"

The Bookseller

"a bitter-sweet, piercing account of a childhood in Borneo"

TES

Two worlds conflate in this evocative and moving novel about the healing power of memory.

Oxford Times

'The beauty of the book is the subtlety and the insightful way the bigger picture of the after effects of the war and the colonial experience are interwoven into the portrait of a growing girl'

The Guardian

'Beautifully crafted'

Sunday Telegraph

'A richly atmospheric tale. . . Geras conveys the intensity of childhood experience with great skill . . . '

Sunday Times

Geras conveys well the difficulties of relating to a colonial community and being the new child...

Books for Keeps

This is a substantial novel suitable for readers of 13+

Inis

Bright and very descriptive . . .this book will stay with you forever

TBK mag

It has a slightly slow start but soon you will be glued to the covers

Independent on Sunday

Short review

The Good Book Guide

Short review

YARN (Sheffield)

Short review

Reading Matters