The Circle

Publisher's description. Fast, thrilling and compulsively addictive, The Circle is Dave Eggers' bestselling novel about our obsession with the internet and where it may lead. When Mae Holland lands her dream job at the world's most powerful internet company, she has no idea what awaits behind the doors of The Circle... * Penguin *
A stunning work of terrifying plausability ... a worthy and entertaining read * Publisher's Weekly *
Eggers has set his style and pace to technothriller: the writing is brisk, spare and efficient ... it works * Time *
Prescient, important and enjoyable ... a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' * Guardian *
The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world ... fast, witty and troubling * Washington Post *
An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century * Vanity Fair *
Immensley readable and very timely * Metro *
A gripping and highly unsettling read * Sunday Times *
Unputdownable * The Times *
Eggers's writing is so fluent, his ventriloquism of tech-world dialect so light, his denouement so enjoyably inevitable * Observer *
Tremendous novel ... inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted * Daily Mail *
Compelling and deeply contemporary * L.A Times *
Eggers brilliantly depicts the Internet binges, torrents of information and endless loops of feedback that increasingly characterize modern life * Booklist *
I kept hooting in appalled recognition at his horribly plausible story of a society in which social media becomes totalitarian -- Emma Donoghue
A story that will come back to haunt you every time you log on to social media * Grayson Perry *