Over two hundred years ago in Africa, a woman tosses her young son to safety as she is hauled away by slavers. After a brutal sea passage, her second child, a new born baby girl, is snatched away. Although the woman doesn’t know it yet, her spirit is destined to roam the earth in search of her lost children.
Her spirit will make way to the 1980s Brixton, where she watches teenage Micheal attempt to stay out of trouble as riots spit and boil on the streets, and to a sun-baked village in Nigeria, where Ngozi struggles to better her life.
As the invisible threads that draw these two together are pulled ever tighter, The book of Echoes asks: how can we overcome the traumas of the past when they are woven so inextricably with the present? Humming with Horror and beauty, Rosanna Amaka’s remarkable debut marks her as a vibrant new voice in fiction.