Download or read book A Gift of Echoes written by Robert Harlow and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-09-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a timeless quality about this powerful, complex novel which is impossible to pin down in a few words. British Book News His comments on the way that people behave toward each other are savagely effective. The Toronto Star After the Second World War John Grandy returns to the village of Onion Lake where he once taught school, and to a job at the Acton lumber mill in northern British Columbia. Old Henry Acton is ill. Son, Nairn, and family have come to learn about the enterprise they will inherit. The destructive element is Velma, a former student of Grandys, whose struggle against her apparent destiny damages everyone. Innocent of intent but guilty of involvement of events, she and Grandy become centra