![]() ![]() Beth is the captain, Addy always her faithful lieutenant. Addy and Beth have been best friends for years and are the top dogs in their high school cheerleading squad. ![]() The End of Everything, her break out work, was a deceptively simple coming of age tale about a missing girl in an anonymous middle class American suburb in the 70s.ĭare Me takes place in the present, in another part of the great expanse of nameless US suburbia. Her first four books, set in America in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, took classic noir themes and characters and gave them a mighty twist. I’ll make no bones about being a huge fan of Abbott’s work. So says Addy Hanlon, narrator of Megan Abbott’s latest book, Dare Me. ![]() There’s something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.” Age fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something – anything – to begin. Written by Megan Abbott - “At first, cheer was something to fill my days, all our days. ![]()
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