{"product_id":"the-social-circle","title":"The Social Circle","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs3388614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs95B300B{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eThe Social Circle by Sophie Wan is a sharp, character-driven contemporary fiction novel about friendship, ambition and the messy early days of social media. It begins at UC Berkeley in 2005, when transfer student Maggie Tang falls in with three brilliant, complicated friends and helps build Circle, a platform that changes everything—until the personal costs become impossible to ignore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eTen years later, Maggie is invited to Circle’s tenth anniversary on a private island in Norway, where a glossy retrospective promises celebration, nostalgia and, inevitably, a reckoning. As the group revisits old dynamics and buried choices, the story moves between then and now, capturing startup culture, first love, betrayal and the uneasy pull of belonging—without losing sight of the people behind the “vision”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy campus-to-Silicon-Valley drama, dual timelines, and intimate relationship novels with tech-world stakes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eAdd it to your cart for a smart, absorbing read that lingers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dear Village","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52760957288724,"sku":"9781761154935","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6460\/0596\/files\/9781761154935_1.jpg?v=1783397687","url":"https:\/\/dearvillage.com.au\/products\/the-social-circle","provider":"Dear Village","version":"1.0","type":"link"}