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The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Award-winning novelist Megan Abbott, writing with what Tom Perrotta has hailed as "total authority and an almost desperate intensity, " provides a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl.

This is Megan Abbott working at the absolute height of her talent' Attica LockeBestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's revelatory and mesmerising new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since birth. Growing up, they were trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their paren...

Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's revelatory and mesmerising new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since birth. Growing up, they were trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident, the sisters began running the school together, ...

After a suspicious suicide, the members of a high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation.

A life-changing secret destroys an unlikely friendship in this "magnetic" psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and The Turnout (Meg Wolitzer).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, th...

SO. GOOD. A tense, pitch-perfect thriller . . . like a dark inversion of The Secret History.' Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said 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 knows something that could burn Kit's world to the ground. But Diane has a secret of her ...

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In een Amerikaans stadje breekt paniek uit als een aantal jonge meiden plotseling ziek wordt door een mysterieus virus. Deenie Nash ziet haar vriendin Lise voor haar ogen neervallen. Het gerucht doet de ronde dat de omstreden inenting tegen het hpv-virus de boosdoener is. Als de ziekte zich steeds verder verspreidt, proberen Deenie, haar vader en haar broer, hun zorgvuldig gekoesterde geheimen voor zich te houden.

In this impossible-to-put-down novel, a small-town high school becomes the breeding ground for a mysterious illness. "The Fever" holds true to its title: It's dark, disturbing, strangely beautiful and utterly unshakeable."--Gillian Flynn.ooks.

‘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 YouKit has risen to the top of her profession. She’s on the brink of achieving everything she wanted, but now someone is standing in her way – Diane.Kit hasn’t always been so driven. It wasn’t until the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high-school chemistry class that ...

Kit Owens thought that she would never see Diane Fleming again. The pair were best friends in high school, until a confidence shared between them changed everything. Kit thinks she has moved on with her life, fulfilling the scientific dreams that Diane awakened within her. The dreams that Diane wanted for herself. But Kit thought wrong. When Diane shows up unannounced in Kit's lab one day--formidable competition for the fellowship that would m...

Kit Owens thought that she would never see Diane Fleming again. The pair were best friends in high school, until a confidence shared between them changed everything. Kit thinks she has moved on with her life, fulfilling the scientific dreams that Diane awakened within her. The dreams that Diane wanted for herself. But Kit thought wrong. When Diane shows up unannounced in Kit's lab one day--formidable competition for the fellowship that would m...

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

Sex, violence, and corruption collide in this gritty vigilante thriller set in 1970s' Washington D.C., written by acclaimed author Abbott ("You Will Know Me" and writer for HBO's "The Deuce") and bestselling crime novelist Gaylin ("What Remains of Me").

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How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles' hard-boiled underworld? Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott's debut, Die a Little, is a gem of the darkest hue. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney's office. Lora's comfortable, suburban life is jarr...

By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything Femmes fatales. Obsessive love. Double crosses. How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeles's hard-boiled underworld? Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott's debut, Die a Little, is a gem of the darkest hue. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, ...

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor, Evie Verver, are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whompresumablythere are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, or upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotte...