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'Megan Abbott at her very best. Cool, crisp, chilling.' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

You told each other everything. Then she told you too much.

Kit has risen to the top of her profession and is on the brink of achieving everything she wanted. She hasn’t let anything stop her.

But now someone else is standing in her way – Diane. Best friends at seventeen, their shared ambition made them inseparable. Until the day Diane told Kit her secret – the worst thing she’d ever done, the worst thing Kit could imagine – and it blew their friendship apart.

Kit is still the only person who knows what Diane did. And now Diane knows something about Kit that could destroy everything she’s worked so hard for.

How far would Kit go, to make the hard work, the sacrifice, worth it in the end? What wouldn’t she give up? Diane thinks Kit is just like her. Maybe she’s right. Ambition: it’s in the blood . . .

Give Me Your Hand is the latest blistering thriller from Megan Abbott.

 Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense Fiction Suspense

Critic reviews

Beautifully written and unbearably tense, this is a standout study of ambition, rivalry and fear.
Megan Abbott is one of the smartest storytellers around and her thought-provoking ideas lift her books to another level.
A finely crafted story of obsession . . . [The] prose has the vividness of cinema, which is no coincidence. Abbott is an expert on film noir and, as with the classic movies of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood, the plot of her own novel twists like a python.
A mesmerizing psychological thriller. (Books of the Year)
[A] searing, fierce novel of female friendship and ambition.
[Give Me Your Hand] should cement [Abbott's] position as one of the most intelligent and daring novelists working in the crime genre today. (Ruth Ware, author of In A Dark, Dark Wood)
The Queen of US noir serves up a suitably spiky tale of ambition and betrayal. (Best Beach Reads for Summer)
Megan Abbott at her very best. Cool, crisp, chilling. (Paula Hawkins)
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 He Said/She Said)
Give Me Your Hand is sublime. (Laura Lippman, author of Life Sentences )
What THESE black shadows under my eyes? Why they're courtesy of Give Me Your Hand. SO UNBEARABLY TENSE. (Tammy Cohen, author of When She Was Bad )
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 The Other Child)
Dark, daring and smart, this psychological thriller is ragingly good.
Give Me Your Hand is dark, unsettling, brilliantly tense, and I raced through it without pausing for breath. (Paula Daly, author of The Mistake I Made)
Megan's writing is masterful, suspenseful and believable . . . The suspense does not let up – I was gripped from the first page. (Debbie Howells, author of The Bones of You)
Give Me Your Hand is dark, smart, twisty, and thoroughly addictive. (Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children)
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 The Interestings)
I adore Megan Abbott and devoured this new one in one sitting! (Bookriot.com)
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