Echo Year
By Germaine Shames (aka Casper Silk)
88 chapters
Who hasn't dreamed of a life in the perfect French chateau?
When electronics magnate David Crown finds himself at the scene of a hate crime, his idyll in the Midi countryside abruptly ends.
Against a backdrop of Gallic bonhomie and summer’s languid ripening, David, his bookish girlfriend, and his demented mother struggle to make a home of a gilded Mansard as it swiftly devolves into a web of mishap and murder.
With deftness and compassion, Casper Silk entwines the destinies of a village thrust into the new millennium, a teenager convicted of a firebombing, and a man struggling, at midlife, to cross a border and seize his dreams.
“Emotive. Sad. Beautiful. Funny. Echo Year is terrific."
Who hasn't dreamed of a life in the perfect French chateau?
When electronics magnate David Crown finds himself at the scene of a hate crime, his idyll in the Midi countryside abruptly ends.
Against a backdrop of Gallic bonhomie and summer’s languid ripening, David, his bookish girlfriend, and his demented mother struggle to make a home of a gilded Mansard as it swiftly devolves into a web of mishap and murder.
With deftness and compassion, Casper Silk entwines the destinies of a village thrust into the new millennium, a teenager convicted of a firebombing, and a man struggling, at midlife, to cross a border and seize his dreams.
“Emotive. Sad. Beautiful. Funny. Echo Year is terrific."