The Circle

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A dark, thrilling, and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet.

Book 1 of 2

Critical Acclaim:

• 'Prepare to be addicted' – Daily Mail
• 'A gripping and highly unsettling read' – Sunday Times
• 'The Circle is "Brave New World" for our brave new world... Fast, witty, and troubling' – Washington Post

Synopsis

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime.

Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in:

• One online identity
• A new age of transparency

Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for the Circle. But as life beyond the campus grows distant, she begins to notice unsettling changes:

• A strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken.
• Her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.

More Praise:

• 'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' – Vanity Fair
• 'Immensely readable and very timely' – Metro
• 'Prescient, important, and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' – Guardian