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1529176743

The echo chamber.

Author: Boyne, John.

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2022.

ISBN: 9781529176742 (pbk.) : 9.99

Notes:

Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2021.

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. 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 a moment.