
The Echo Chamber
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Narrated by:
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Richard E. Grant
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By:
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John Boyne
Brought to you by Penguin.
What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.
The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words); his wife, Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like); and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen.
Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way, they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path.
Powered by John Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone.
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Brilliant! On point! Wow!
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There are many laugh out loud moments in this
satirical look at the society we live in today! Very well done!
Wonderful
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Laugh out loud funny
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An exquisite read from Richard E.Grant. A genuine pleasure.
Very, very clever.
LOL
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Absolutely hilarious!
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Hilarious
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Thought provoking
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Let’s introduce you to the Cleverley family -
Father George is a TV chat show host, a self declared ‘national treasure’…
Mother Beverley is an ‘author’, however these days she has a ghost writer write all her books…
And their three extremely dysfunctional children - Nelson, Elizabeth and Achilles…
Full of self-absorbed characters, who are all unwittingly interconnected, The Echo Chamber was thoroughly entertaining!
John Boyne is one of my favourite authors & Richard E. Grant was the most perfect choice as the narrator.
Thoroughly entertaining!
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A brilliantly funny and wonderfully observed book!
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Outrageous, pithy and redemptive tale
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