Universality - Natasha Brown | SIGNED INDIES EXCLUSIVE EDITION

Emma recommends... Bringing all the sharp observation of privilege, inequality of opportunity, and the intersectionality of race and class from her debut Assembly but with a new edge! Sparklingly spiky humour combines the perspectives of different protagonists - some of them utterly, hideously reprehensible. Would be utterly devastating if it wasn't so funny! 

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On an abandoned Yorkshire farm, a group of hippie-anarchists have taken up residence to build a new society. When their leader is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar, an ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth behind the attack. The longread exposé she writes goes viral - but is there more to the story than meets the eye?Universality unravels the messy aftermath of that exposé through the perspective of each of the mystery's key players: a self-pitying banker, a columnist with secrets, a cult leader with dreams and a fugitive with nothing left to lose.

The follow-up to Natasha Brown's Assembly is a twisty, slippery story of media, class, power and truth. Cutting through the noise, it reveals British society today for what it is.