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 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 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 Century Vanity Fair Immensely readable and very timely Metro Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication Guardian