The Gossip Cult

Charlyze had a husband, a life, and absolutely no reason to be in a WhatsApp group at six in the morning.She joined out of curiosity - the kind that gets you into rooms you have no business being in, then keeps you there long enough to work out who's lying to whom.What began as a little experiment in human behaviour became something else entirely: an exclusive online circle where gossip was currency, loyalty was mandatory, and the two people running it were quietly terrified of being irrelevant. Every message monitored. Every opinion ranked. Every exit treated as treason.Charlyze stayed to watch it unravel. Naturally.The Gossip Cult is the new book in The Vanity Fair Notebook - Audrey Charlyes Jacquet's autofiction series about walking into worlds uninvited and reporting back without mercy. It's a study of insecurity dressed up as intimacy, control disguised as community, and the small, savage theatre of people who behave badly the moment they think no one important is watching.

Pages: 44, Paperback, Audrey Charlyes Jacquet