by Brown, Natasha (Author) | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published 13/03/2025 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom Hardback | 176 pages216 x 135mm | 0g 'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' Andrew O'Hagan 'Original, vital, and unputdownable.' Tess Gunty 'Breathtaking...a precise dissection of class, wealth and power.' Elizabeth DayIn The new novel from the author of Assembly, a viral longread exposé raises more questions than it answers. Remember - words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency. On a Yorkshire farm, a man is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar. A plucky young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement. She solves the mystery, but her viral longread exposé raises more questions than it answers. Universality is a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power. Through a voyeuristic lens, it focuses on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean. The follow-up novel to Natasha Brown's Assembly is a compellingly nasty celebration of the spectacular force of language. It dares you to look away.
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