”A searing, rhapsodic novel. `The Book of Echoes` is filled with beauty, devastation and the power of ancestral connections that ripple through the ages” Irenson OkojieNarrated by the soul of an enslaved African woman, this is a searing debut novel about hope, redemption and the scars of historyOver 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 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 its way to modern-day England, where she watches teenage Michael trying to stay out of trouble as riots spit and boil on the streets of Brixton, and to a sun-baked village in Nigeria, where Ngozi struggles to escape her low-caste status.As the invisible threads that draw these two lives 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.