The Circle

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega

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

Prepare to be addictedDaily Mail

A gripping and highly unsettling readSunday Times

The Circle is Brave New World for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troublingWashington Post

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the worlds most powerful internet company, she feels shes 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 and a new age of transparency. Mae cant believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...

An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st CenturyVanity Fair

Immensely readable and very timelyMetro

Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognosticationGuardian