Length2h 51m
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Aladdin, but with post-traumatic stress,
Charlie Echo is a story about wishes – the last wishes of a dying soldier in Normandy in 1944. Verbal wills of this sort are valid if there are two witnesses and the first men on the scene are radio operator Charlie Goodman and his assistant, Sid Saunders. Unfortunately, in the confusion of events that follow, Charlie fails to ascertain the full identity of the dying officer and is invalided back to Blighty plagued by trauma and remorse. Once he has been demobbed also, it falls to Saunders to break the impasse by getting his comrade to repair a radio telephone, just like the one they were using in France. What he doesn't anticipate is that working on the set will prompt Charlie to not only hear the mystery soldier's voice again, but to see him too. If not quite the genie in the lamp, it seems like there's a ghost in the machine and one that's been transported to his workshop in Leeds.
Dismayed to discover that his wishes have not been carried out, the ghost goads Charlie into journeying through post-war Britain in order to fulfil his battlefield promise. Jolting between humour and pathos, it's a journey that transforms reclusive repair man into unlikely pantomime hero and propels Saunders off in pursuit to play his allotted role in the "show".
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction
Length2 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byLee Ingleby
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 28, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
13Chapter Twelve
2Chapter One
14Chapter Thirteen
3Chapter Two
15Chapter Fourteen
4Chapter Three
16Chapter Fifteen
5Chapter Four
17Chapter Sixteen
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6Chapter Five
18Chapter Seventeen
7Chapter Six
19Chapter Eighteen
8Chapter Seven
20Chapter Nineteen
9Chapter Eight
21Chapter Twenty
10Chapter Nine
22Chapter Twenty-One
11Chapter Ten
23End Credits
12Chapter Eleven
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