Give Me Your Hand

I adore Megan Abbott and devoured this new one in one sitting! -- Bookriot.com While Megan Abbott's magnetic new novel mines themes of ambition, competition, excellence, and friendship, what perhaps struck me the most was its exploration of the long, undeterrable reach of memory. Give Me Your Hand is darkly effective, uneasy-making, and beautifully, absorbingly written. -- Meg Wolitzer, author of <i>The Interestings</i> Give Me Your Hand is dark, smart, twisty, and thoroughly addictive. -- Tom Perrotta, author of <i>Little Children</i> Megan's writing is masterful, suspenseful and believable . . . The suspense does not let up - I was gripped from the first page. -- Debbie Howells Give Me Your Hand is dark, unsettling, brilliantly tense, and I raced through it without pausing for breath. -- Paula Daly, author of <i>The Mistake I Made</i> A psychological thriller about women in science, twisted female relationships and toxic secrets, Give Me Your Hand is just irresistible. I devoured it with escalating discomfort. Abbott's writing is elegant, her themes expansive and her research utterly convincing. An addictive, unsettling and distinctive read - I loved it! -- Lucy Atkins, author of <i>The Other Child</i> What THESE black shadows under my eyes? Why they're courtesy of Give Me Your Hand. SO UNBEARABLY TENSE. -- Tammy Cohen, author of <i>When She Was Bad </i> Give Me Your Hand is sublime. -- Laura Lippman, author of <i>Life Sentences </i> SO. GOOD. A tense, pitch-perfect thriller about ambition and female friendship and a forensic examination of what it takes for women to rise through male-dominated spaces. It felt in places like a dark inversion of The Secret History. -- Erin Kelly, author of <i>He Said/She Said</i> Megan Abbott at her very best. Cool, crisp, chilling. -- Paula Hawkins