Echoes

"You know it was a good book when you spend the afternoon wondering what the characters are doing."      

                                               Sandra Boyd, editor

"John Franks' remarkable debut novel, Echoes, is primarily a modern story of love, challenge and relationships. Interwoven through this contemporary tale is an intriguing historical narrative, the significance of which left me guessing right up to the book's ending. Echoes is beautifully and sensitively written without ever being sentimental or saccharine. A lovely debut novel - touching, poignant and effortlessly readable!"

Pam Garfoot, author

Capricorn Drover and the

prize-winning Making Them Real

"Franks is an engaging and idiosyncratic writer whose first novel Echoes balances a modern-day love story with a secondary 19th century tale of colonial Australia. Echoes is a smooth and well written tale that many people will relate to the realistic interplay between the main characters. The ending makes the journey worthwhile, and the author's style should have a widespread appeal."

Ned Stephenson, author

Sutcliffe's Alchemy series, and

2023 Newcastle Herald short story

competition people's choice award

"Echoes tells stories of colonial Sydney, Threlkeld's Lake Macquarie mission and post-war Poland. They form the background to an engaging modern love story about identity and how history and the land shape us."

Claire Williams

Author and historian