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New! Megan's novel, The End of Everything, will be released in paperback in July 2012.

Dare Me: A Novel

"Megan Abbott is an extraordinary writer" –Nick Hornby


Addy Hanlon and Beth Cassidy are tough, inseparable, invincible. No pair more charismatic or sophisticated. No pair more dangerous.


But with the fall term, their new coach arrives and things begin to change. She has plans for the cheerleading squad. All sleek poise and cool command, the girls are soon entirely in her thrall. Faster, harder, higher, thinner, the stakes raised, their world contracting, they compete to risk-everything.


She, however, has been crossing a line of her own.


From the author of The End of Everything, Dare Me is a searing novel about the allure of adulthood and the dark heart of adolescence: the fierce bonds between girls, their bitter rivalries, and their power to transform one another.


Dare Me will be released 10 May in the UK and in July 31 in the US.




See some of the recognition that The End of Everything has received, including being named on "Best Of" Lists from Publisher's Weekly, Boston Globe, Washington Examiner, and more!


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"Stirring...[a] storytelling feat." --New York Times



What They're Saying

The End of Everything was named one Best Books of 2011 by multiple lists!

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"Abbott has become expert at revealing truths we thought we knew but didn't, delivered in prose that is by turns elegant and incantatory."

Daniel Woodrell


"One of the most exciting and original voices of her generation."

Laura Lippman


"Deft, intelligent and enthralling."

Kate Atkinson


"Megan Abbott writes with total authority and an almost desperate intensity; [she] grabs hold of you and won't let go."

Tom Perrotta


"Megan Abbott captures the essence of being thirteen - all its magic, its intensity, its headlong power and its terrible vulnerability - and wraps it in a story that's taut, unflinching and very hard to put down."

Tana French