<p><font><b>An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.</b></font><br><b><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023<br><br></b>''A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and thought-provoking. It humanises literature in this toxic moment.''<br><b>MAX PORTER</b>, author of <i>Lanny</i><br><br>''Seemingly simple yet so deeply profound, <i>The Passengers</i> is an absorbing insight into the lives and minds of so-called ordinary people: their hopes and fears and idiosyncrasies at a specific moment in time.''<br><b>CLIO BARNARD</b>, director of <i>Ali & Ava</i> and <i>The Essex Serpent<br></i><br>''A nation¿s psyche comes to the surface. <i>The Passengers</i> is not just an oral history of the contemporary moment but, drenched in mood and texture, renders the country itself as a sonic collage.''<br><b>SUKHDEV SANDHU, <i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br><br>Between October 2