The Group Chat
On sale
4th February 2027
Price: £20
PRAISE FOR MATT BEAUMONT
‘Gives me more sense that literature is alive and kicking than anything else I’ve read in these twelve months.’ – Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times Review of the Year
‘Lively, viciously funny’ – Mirror
‘Hilarious’ – Cosmopolitan
‘A genuinely enjoyable page-turner’ – The Times
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Love thy neighbour…?
How do we talk to each other these days? Less and less with our mouths, more and more with our thumbs.
Meet the residents of Tambo Road in North London as they use their local group chat to discuss all the really big first-world problems, like delayed bin collections, misplaced deliveries and, ‘Is anyone else having trouble with their broadband?’
Everyday acts of generosity and low-level bickering are the order of business, until a local nursery is converted into a refugee centre. Suddenly those simmering political differences between neighbours are becoming heated messages to each other that are in danger of truly boiling over…
‘Gives me more sense that literature is alive and kicking than anything else I’ve read in these twelve months.’ – Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times Review of the Year
‘Lively, viciously funny’ – Mirror
‘Hilarious’ – Cosmopolitan
‘A genuinely enjoyable page-turner’ – The Times
——————————————————————————–
Love thy neighbour…?
How do we talk to each other these days? Less and less with our mouths, more and more with our thumbs.
Meet the residents of Tambo Road in North London as they use their local group chat to discuss all the really big first-world problems, like delayed bin collections, misplaced deliveries and, ‘Is anyone else having trouble with their broadband?’
Everyday acts of generosity and low-level bickering are the order of business, until a local nursery is converted into a refugee centre. Suddenly those simmering political differences between neighbours are becoming heated messages to each other that are in danger of truly boiling over…