THE PASSENGERS

An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience funny moving surprising and thought provoking It humanises literature in this toxic moment MAX PORTER author of Lanny Seemingly simple yet so deeply profound The Passengers 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 CLIO BARNARD director of Ali & Ava and The Essex Serpent A nation s psyche comes to the surface The Passengers is not just an oral history of the contemporary moment but drenched in mood and texture renders the country itself as a sonic collage SUKHDEV SANDHU GUARDIAN Between October 2018 and March 2021 Will Ashon collected voices people talking about their lives needs dreams loves hopes and fears all of them with some connection to the British Isles He used a range of methods including letters sent to random addresses hitchhiking referrals from strangers and so on He conducted the interviews in person on the phone over the internet or asked people to record themselves Interview techniques ranged from asking people to tell him a secret to choo