Vendor
	Writers House Maja Nikolic
Original language
English
Categories
Psychological thriller

GIVE ME YOUR HAND

Megan Abbott

A New York Times Editor’s Choice selection * One of Entertainment Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books of 2018* Waterstones Thriller of the Month (February 2019)

A mesmerizing psychological thriller about how a secret can bind two friends together forever...or tear them apart. Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane’s academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she’s put Diane behind her forever and she’s begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past comes roaring back when she discovers that Diane is her competition for a position both women covet, taking part in groundbreaking new research led by their idol. Soon enough, the two former friends find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that threatens to destroy them both.

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Book Published 2018-07-17 by Little, Brown & Company

Comments

“GIVE ME YOUR HAND is a nuanced and atmospheric story about the lure of big dreams, especially for women. It’s also a story about the unpredictable power of dreams to suddenly turn into dead ends.”

“GIVE ME YOUR HAND is steeped in the feminine gothic. . . . The book sends taproots into the ‘dark, messy stuff’ that Abbott links to womanhood—but she is not prompting us, as in a Dead Girl story, to identify with the murder victim. This novel, instead, explores what characters who have been beaten down and confined by sexism might be capable of. Abbott tempts us to read her tale as a study in what happens when female revenge overflows its bounds, when female rage rises up like a ghost out of the earth. . . . Just as success at élite levels is impossible without sacrifice, Abbott slyly hints, the sweetness, the impossible innocence, of femininity entails a dark seam.”

“A white-hot look at the ways in which envy perverts ambition, and our secrets make us sick, GIVE ME YOUR HAND is the ultimate unsettling read of the summer.”

“The past decade or so has seen the rise of a new cohort of women thriller writers whose works not only place female killers in a central role but also treat them as complex, fully realized individuals... Abbott’s books stand out as the most literarily sophisticated and the most psychologically insightful.”

“Abbott turns to the dark side of friendship and ambition with an intriguing story about two women scientists vying to conduct groundbreaking work in a pressure cooker of a research lab. . . . Abbott again shows why she’s one of our best story tellers.”