Other Echoes

by Adèle Geras (Author), Adèle Geras (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $4.69

  Flora is 18 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. In making sense of her own memories, Flora uncovers the ideas and emotions that make her the person she is today.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.22

  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.