![]() There are layers of funny to this novel that make it incredibly erudite. The Cleverley family were absurdly magnetic, the loop of six degrees of separation bouncing between them and the extra cast of characters was hilarious and really reinforced just what a small world it can be in certain circumstances, particularly when are you are up to no good or just simply making a spectacle of yourself. This is clever humour, heavy on the pop culture and political references, and so in tune with the pulse of society as it is today. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much whilst reading a book. Published by Penguin Random House Australia – Doubleday To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path. 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. 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. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. At once, a gateway to other worlds – and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. From the author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies and powered with 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. ![]()
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