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Give Me Everything You've Got
- Author
- Imogen Crimp
- Narrator
- Mei Mei MacLeod
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 7 May 2026
- Run Time
- 9 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘Rebecca meets Brideshead Revisited meets Saltburn’ STYLIST
‘A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel’ CLAIRE FULLER
‘Evocative, gripping and, at times, verging on horror’ IRISH TIMES
‘Hypnotic and immersive ... Utterly addictive’ COLIN WALSH
‘A hugely talented writer’ SARAH WATERS
‘Sexy, evocative and unsettling in all the best ways’ JENNIE GODFREY
‘The book of the summer’ HARPERS BAZAAR
‘Tense, intelligent, excruciating … A cross between Notes On A Scandal and The Safekeep’ DAILY MAIL
Ruby has spent her twenties scraping by in unfulfilling jobs. But now she’s tasting her first success as a film director – and she’s caught the eye of Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist filmmaker, critical darling and Ruby’s idol.
When Ellen invites Ruby down to her sprawling country house and offers to mentor her through writing her next film, Ruby can’t believe her luck. Arriving in the middle of an oppressive heat wave, she is overawed by the glamour of the house – and finds herself quickly drawn into the middle of a dangerous dynamic between Ellen and her elusive daughter Lara.
Because Ellen and Lara, it seems, like to play games with promising young women. As tensions escalate, Ruby begins to ask herself: why was she brought here, and what exactly do these two women want from her?
Give Me Everything You’ve Got is the incendiary new novel from Imogen Crimp: a fearless, sultry and deliciously dark exploration of art, power and sex that grips to the final page.
Readers love Give Me Everything You've Got
'Gives gothic Rebecca vibes - couldn't put it down'
'Hazy, confusing Saltburn vibes but so interestingly combined with themes from The Safekeep and with lots of gothic influence from books like Rebecca and Jane Eyre. I loved this book'
Critics Review
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A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel. I loved its dreamy, hazy surface, and its uncomfortable undertow
CLAIRE FULLER, author of the Costa Prize winning Unsettled Ground
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Atmospheric and full of foreboding
MAIL ON SUNDAY
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A watch-this-space writer ... Explores power, exploitation and the cost of making art
IRISH INDEPENDENT
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A hugely talented writer
SARAH WATERS
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A psychologically rich and delectably dark look at the price of women’s artistic ambition
PEOPLE
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The novel explores power, exploitation, and the cost of making art, casting a cold eye over the film industry, which urges women to tell autobiographical stories laying bare their pain
IRISH INDEPENDENT, Books of the summer
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Shot through with satire on the culture industry’s demand for autobiographical stories of women’s lives, the plot resembles a cross between Zoë Heller’s Notes On A Scandal and Yael van der Wouden’s recent hit The Safekeep. Tense and intelligent, with an excruciating set-piece climax
DAILY MAIL
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The book of the summer ... Blistering, compelling, claustrophobic, and sinister ... A summer of mysterious entanglements, self-destruction and a fascinating dissection of feminism and passion in the pursuit of making
HARPERS BAZAAR, The Culture List
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Crimp succeeds in creating an increasing claustrophobia and paranoia at Ellen’s sprawling estate, as both Ruby and the reader start to doubt whether either Ellen or Lara really care at all about her. Give Me Everything You’ve Got is evocative, gripping, and at times, verging on horror
IRISH TIMES
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Hypnotic and immersive, dreamlike and ferociously paced ... a novel in which every sunlit surface pulses with menace and dread. Utterly addictive
COLIN WALSH, author of Kala
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The air is stifling, the mood unsettling, and Ruby is increasingly aware of darker, seductive games at play
SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE
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Vivid, cinematic, fantastically atmospheric ... The claustrophobic summer heat seeps through every scene, amping up the tension
LITERARY REVIEW
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Ruby knows she has finally made it as a director when the filmmaker she idolises, Ellen, invites her to her country home during a heatwave. But she begins to question things when she finds herself drawn into the tumultuous dynamic between Ellen and her unpredictable daughter
I PAPER, The best new books to read in May
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A total fever dream ... completely dizzying. Tinged with a sense of creeping claustrophobia throughout, it’s hard to ignore the descent into madness that inches its way into the book
THE COLD MAGAZINE
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I love Imogen Crimp's writing, and this novel is sexy, evocative and unsettling in all the best ways
JENNIE GODFREY
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From Manderley in Rebecca to Brideshead Revisited and Saltburn, a sprawling, beautiful house is bound to be hiding some sinister secrets (while also featuring covetable herb gardens and marble fireplaces). So when budding screenwriter Ruby is invited to her idol’s country house, her best bet would be to write a polite ‘no, thank you’ card. Instead, she’s ensnared by feminist director Ellen and her wayward daughter, Lara, who both seem to be playing a game that Ruby can’t quite fathom – all while being utterly beguiled by the house itself
STYLIST
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A mesmerising treat that takes the reader on a gripping, labyrinthine exploration of power and corrupted feminism. Crimp executes a stylish and sensuous game of cat and mouse, as elegant as it is disturbing
AISLING RAWLE
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Like the best perfumes, Give Me Everything You've Got makes you lean in closer. Classic notes of atmospheric suspense (Rebecca, The Turn of the Screw) linger underneath a woozy blend of ambition, sex, and manipulation. An intriguing and seductive bouquet of a novel
MEG HOWREY
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Praise for A Very Nice Girl: ''Tender, devastating, witty, and deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People
MEG MASON
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One of the buzziest debut novels this spring
VOGUE
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Elegant and witty ... A precursor to great things
THE TIMES
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An absorbing debut about sex and power
GUARDIAN
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Haunting and bleakly compelling ... A writer of promise
SUNDAY TIMES
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Wonderful ... A beautifully written examination of the psychology of sex, power, ambition and love and it’s particularly brilliant on being insecure about who you are
DAILY MAIL
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Imogen Crimp captures the glittering thrill of being young and choosing your own life with a dark, unflinching undercurrent of desire, power and control
JESSICA ANDREWS
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A blazing, darkly funny debut that captures a young woman’s search to find herself .... It has an honesty and tenderness that will stay with me for a long time
RACHEL JOYCE
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Details
- Author
- Imogen Crimp
- Narrator
- Mei Mei MacLeod
- Duration
- 9 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9781526691781
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Give Me Everything You've Got by Imogen Crimp, read by Mei Mei Macleod‘Rebecca meets Brideshead Revisited meets Saltburn’ STYLIST‘A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel’ CLAIRE FULLER‘Evocative, gripping and, at times, verging on horror’ IRISH TIMES‘Hypnotic and immersive ... Utterly addictive’ COLIN WALSH‘A hugely talented writer’ SARAH WATERS‘Sexy, evocative and unsettling in all the best ways’ JENNIE GODFREY‘The book of the summer’ HARPERS BAZAAR‘Tense, intelligent, excruciating … A cross between Notes On A Scandal and The Safekeep’ DAILY MAILRuby has spent her twenties scraping by in unfulfilling jobs. But now she’s tasting her first success as a film director – and she’s caught the eye of Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist filmmaker, critical darling and Ruby’s idol.When Ellen invites Ruby down to her sprawling country house and offers to mentor her through writing her next film, Ruby can’t believe her luck. Arriving in the middle of an oppressive heat wave, she is overawed by the glamour of the house – and finds herself quickly drawn into the middle of a dangerous dynamic between Ellen and her elusive daughter Lara.Because Ellen and Lara, it seems, like to play games with promising young women. As tensions escalate, Ruby begins to ask herself: why was she brought here, and what exactly do these two women want from her? Give Me Everything You’ve Got is the incendiary new novel from Imogen Crimp: a fearless, sultry and deliciously dark exploration of art, power and sex that grips to the final page.Readers love Give Me Everything You've Got'Gives gothic Rebecca vibes - couldn't put it down''Hazy, confusing Saltburn vibes but so interestingly combined with themes from The Safekeep and with lots of gothic influence from books like Rebecca and Jane Eyre. I loved this book'
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