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Matt Haig's first novel for young readers, Shadow Forest, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and the Gold Smarties Award. He is also the author of various adult novels, including the bestsellers The Last Family in England, The Radleys and The Humans. Reviewers have called his writing 'totally engrossing', 'touching, quirky and macabre' and 'so surprising and strange that it vaults into a realm all of its own'. His books have been translated into 25 languages. He lives in York.Matt Haig is astounding
- Stephen Fry,
A highly original page-turner
Independent on Sunday
A brilliant story that you'll want to read in one sitting
The Sun on Sunday
An exciting SF thriller but also a rich and deeply felt exploration of the line that separates humans – creatures of love, passion, fear and hate – from mere organic simulations
- Anthony McGowan, Guardian
It’s a treat to read such a satisfying, complex work
Financial Times
As with Haig’s other crossover novels<i> The Radleys</i> and <i>The Humans</i>, this combines a cracking plot with profound philosophical questions about what it is to be human. Fearless and beautifully written, it confirms Haig as one of our best new writers of speculative fiction
- Amanda Craig, New Statesman
Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin
- Jeanette Winterson,
Haig brings to life a terrifying and claustrophobic dystopian future. The future we are shown in <i>Echo Boy</i> is dark and disturbing, but there is hope. Hope that whatever terrors await, you can't put out "the irrepressible light" inside a person
Telegraph
Poignant and thought-provoking
The Bookseller
Will appeal as much to adults as teenagers . . . Enough action, adventure and tension with a slight dusting of romance to keep anyone enthralled . . . Matt Haig has penned a number of hugely popular adult and young children's novels and if <i>Echo Boy</i> is anything to go by, he's on the way to steal the YA market too . . . It's his unique depth of writing that makes Matt Haig's work such compelling reading
Starburst
Audrey’s father taught her that to stay human in the modern world, she had to build a moat around herself; a moat of books and music, philosophy and dreams. A moat that makes Audrey different from the echoes: sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to resemble humans and to work for human masters.
Daniel is an echo – but he’s not like the others. He feels a connection with Audrey; a feeling Daniel knows he was never designed to have, and cannot explain. And when Audrey is placed in terrible danger, he’s determined to save her.
ECHO BOY is a powerful story about love, loss and what makes us truly human.
Audrey’s father taught her that to stay human in the modern world, she had to build a moat around herself; A moat that makes Audrey different from the echoes: sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to resemble humans and to work for human masters.