When strangers take part in a series of group suicides, everything
suggests that a cult is to blame. How do you stop a cult when nobody
knows they are a member?
***Telegraph Book of the Year***
***Longlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award***
***Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
Award 2020***
'Heavy gusts of bedsit nihilism usher in this strange mystery ...
weirdly page-turning' Sunday Times
'Laying bare our 21st-century weaknesses and dilemmas, Carver has
created a highly original state-of-the-nation novel' Literary
Review
'Arguably the most original crime novel published this year'
Independent
Nine suicides
One Cult
No leader
Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They've never met. But
at the same time, they run, and leap to their deaths. Each of them
received a letter in the post that morning, a pre-written suicide note,
and a page containing only four words: Nothing important happened today.
That is how they knew they had been chosen to become a part of the
People Of Choice: A mysterious suicide cult whose members have no
knowledge of one another.
Thirty-two people on that train witness the event. Two of them will be
next. By the morning, People Of Choice are appearing around the globe;
it becomes a movement. A social media page that has lain dormant for
four years suddenly has thousands of followers. The police are under
pressure to find a link between the cult members, to locate a leader
that does not seem to exist.
How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member?
'Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain. After
this, he'll have his own cult following' Daily Express
'At once fantastical and appallingly plausible ... this mesmeric novel
paints a thought-provoking if depressing picture of modern life'
Guardian
'This book is most memorable for its unrepentant darkness...'
Telegraph
'Unlike anything else you'll read this year' Heat
'Utterly mesmerising...' Crime Monthly
