The Circle (Penguin Essentials)

Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive – The Circle is Dave Eggers’s timely novel about our obsession with the internet, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

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 and a new age of transparency. Mae can’t 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 …

‘Tremendous. Inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted’ –Daily Mail

‘Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication’ –Guardian

‘A gripping and highly unsettling read’ –Sunday Times