{"product_id":"i-want-everything-5","title":"I Want Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘A delightful literary puzzle, posed to the reader in vibrant and clear-cut prose... It's rare for a writer to be this good both at crafting a sentence and at making you want to read the next one.’ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaoise Dolan, author of\u003ci\u003e Exciting Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Happy Couple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Composed with stylistic brilliance and structural ingenuity, I Want Everything is that rare thing, a great contemporary novel... Dominic Amerena is a fantastic writer. (Seriously.)' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Oyler, author of \u003ci\u003eFake Accounts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Judgement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e You all know this, of course, but years and years ago, acclaimed Australian novelist Brenda Shales went missing. After two explosive, controversial books that would shape the literary canon of the country for decades to come — and that terrible legal scandal about plagiarism, of course — she was simply gone.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e That was, right up until a frustrated young writer sees an elderly woman swimming at his local pool in Melbourne. She looks familiar…very familiar in fact. No. It couldn’t be. Stunned, he returns home to confirm the impossible truth; it’s Brenda Shales, now in her old age and stranded in a retirement home. He’s determined to pursue her, to discover what happened to her all those years ago, and to possibly fulfil his dreams of literary stardom through a tell-all biography. But when he finds her, a case of mistaken identity and Brenda’s own terrible secrets begin to derail his ambitions, and ultimately, his entire life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From brilliant debut novelist Dominic Amerena, \u003ci\u003eI Want Everything\u003c\/i\u003e is a wickedly sharp story of desire and deception, authorship and authenticity, and the devastating costs of creative ambition. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56580633461080,"sku":"9781398547490","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781398547490_699aa8d5-581a-4164-a554-ff9da19d12d4.jpg?v=1780118144","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/i-want-everything-5","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}