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A Moment In Time Eric (Erk) Brook
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Dateline: Sydney. Thursday April 01, 2010
For many people, it is the day before a 4 day long weekend because of Easter. However, for a group of Sydney women doing extraordinary jobs, it is a regular day. A Moment In Time follows these women as they go about their work in traditional male roles.
The women are all aiming to do the best that they can to get through each day regardless of what Sydney throws at them. Their aim is to be able to go home at the end of their shift, alive. Most people take for granted that they will go home alive at the end of the day. But for these women, lots of training, teamwork, dedication and a little bit of luck is needed.
Written by Eric Brook (aka Erk from Channel Erk Podcasts), this is his first novel. You might know him better from the online world and podcasting. This book is partly based on his experiences working on the Sydney railway system, as a volunteer in an Emergency Service organisation and as a life long Sydney resident.
The book is entirely set on Thursday 01 April 2010. Following each character through the city of Sydney, incidents and their lives interconnect through the story.
A Moment In Time was almost entirely written on an iPhone using an application called My Writing Nook.
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AMomentInTime 01
Dateline: Thursday 01 April 2010. Caroline is very excited about her first day at her new job. She has been looking forward to this day since she has been a small child. It would be very bad for her to be late on her first day of work - after all, you only get one chance to make a good first impression!
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AMomentInTime 02
It is an impressive April day in Sydney as Caroline drives her car across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. She meets her management team as well as her partners. After a tour of the station, some paperwork and filling her hell-belt with supplies, Caroline is ready to be let loose on the unsuspecting citizens of Sydney on her first day of her new job.
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AMomentInTime 03
It's a nice day for Judy to be able to drive around and around and around. But first, she has to find her vehicle and then make sure that it is ready to go, that everything is how it should be. You just can't turn up to work and drive straight away, can you?
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AMomentInTime 04
Judy's routine was relatively simple on this particular schedule. See a platform, stop. Go. See another platform, stop. That might be making it sound very simple. Judy made it look easy. However, controlling this big passenger carrying machine with only her left hand took a lot of training, skill & experience.
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AMomentInTime 05
Katrina is starting to suffer with cabin fever. New to the Platoon, she wants to get out there & get her hands dirty. She sees the other trucks getting to leave on jobs but she has to stay behind and wait. It is starting to do her head in. Renee sees this and decides that it is time that Katrina goes out for a city drive instead of sitting around doing nothing.
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AMomentInTime 06
Katrina is waiting at the fire station and hears the noise that she has been waiting hours for - an alarm for her. She finally has a job. This is no ordinary job that she will not remember next week. She will remember this dirty, dark, smelly and confined spaces job for the rest of her career. The eyes of Sydney's travelling public will be watching her every move as they want to go home. Will Katrina be able to cope with the pressure? Will Station Officer Renee be able to guide rookie Rescue Operator Katrina through the incident so Katrina is not added to the list of people who go in as a rescuer & need rescuing themselves?
Customer Reviews
Why the 3-second pause between sentences?
This is a very monotone sounding book. Along with that, the narrator reads a sentence or two, then there is a 3-second pause, then he reads another sentence or two. Very hard to listen too