# Nothing Important Happened Today

**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_**  
  
  
  
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**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?  
  
  
  
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'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_**

## Details

- **Price:** 15.95 GBP
- **Vendor:** Orenda Books
- **Type:** Will Carver

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