Give Me Your Hand
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- 39,00 kr
Publisher Description
‘Beautifully written and unbearably tense, this is a standout study of ambition, rivalry and fear.’ - Guardian
Step into the high-stakes arena of scientific research, where the road to professional peaks is paved with ambition and a shared past that threatens to undo everything, from the acclaimed author Megan Abbot.
Kit has risen to the top of her profession. She's on the brink of achieving everything she wanted, but someone is standing in her way - Diane. Diane made Kit who she is today, lit the ambition that's driven her – and now she is a potential destroyer of her meticulously built world.
As dark revelations unfurl and ambitions clash, their once firm friendship shatters. Diane sees a chilling mirror in Kit, while Kit is haunted by a grave secret from their past. The resulting maelstrom of manipulation and deception escalates their rivalry into a dance of unravelling sanity and hidden truths.
Give Me Your Hand traverses the thorns of female friendship, professional rivalry, and the chilling repercussions of guarded secrets.
'Megan Abbott at her very best. Cool, crisp, chilling.' – Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Lab mice aren't the only creatures under examination in Megan Abbott’s latest thriller. Kit Owens is grinding her way through the ultra-competitive world of neurological research and working towards her dream position. But the reappearance of Kit’s high school frenemy Diane Fleming could unravel both women’s lives. Abbott, who won an Edgar Award in the U.S. for 2008's Queenpin, creates two relatable female characters who are going up against the old boys' club of academia. That keeps this dark story’s body count and shocking climax grounded in a timely reality.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kit Owens and Diane Fleming, the protagonists of this nuanced tale of soured friendships, blood-soaked ambition, and desperate murder from Thriller Award winner Abbott (You Will Know Me), were once fast friends until Diane tells Kit a secret so dark that it shatters their friendship, sending Kit into a minor tailspin. But high school is drawing to a close, and Kit hopes she'll never see Diane again. Fast-forward more than a decade, and Kit is working in a lab under the impressive Dr. Lena Severin. When a new grant is announced to study premenstrual dysphoric disorder, Kit can hardly contain her shock as Diane reappears as a newly poached superstar from a competing lab. Kit and Diane each want coveted spots on Dr. Severin's PMDD research team, and as the only women in the male-dominated lab, they must deal with their colleagues' thinly veiled misogyny. When Diane's secret pulses to the surface, lives are lost and futures are put in doubt in a mad rush to keep the past in its place. No writer can touch Abbott in the realm of twisted desire and relationships between women, both intimate and feral.
