I Want Everything

De: Dominic Amerena

Narrado por: Blake Erickson, Heather Mitchell

'A brilliant concept, brilliantly executed.' Bri Lee

'Took my breath away.' Sofie Laguna

It starts with a lie. One small lie to get everything he wants. But one lie leads to another, and another. Caught in his own web of deception, how can he recognise the truth? And what is it going to cost him?

The legendary career of reclusive cult author Brenda Shales remains one of Australia’s last unsolved literary mysteries. Her books took the world by storm before she disappeared from the public eye after a mysterious plagiarism case. But when an ambitious young writer stumbles across Brenda at a Melbourne pool, he realises the scoop of a lifetime is floating in front of him: the truth behind why she vanished without a trace. The only problem? He must pretend to be someone he’s not to trick the story out of her.

One innocent lie leads to a slew that are definitively not, as Brenda reveals the strange and troubling truth of where her books came from. Yet the more the author unravels about Brenda’s past, the more he begins to question whether Brenda is a reliable narrator. Is she spilling secrets or spinning tales? Is she, like him, little more than a talented thief? To write the book that will make his name, he must balance his ethics and ambition and decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to become the next great Australian writer.

This astonishing debut, full of delicious twists and wicked insights, is a dazzling novel of desire and deception, authorship and authenticity, and the costs of creative ambition.

'That rare thing, a great contemporary novel.' Lauren Oyler

©2025 Dominic Amerena (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

‘A twisty-turny, deliciously sneaky and bitingly insightful literary mystery. I laughed, cringed, squirmed, clapped and cheered.’ (Emily Maguire, author of Rapture )

‘I Want Everything is a Russian Doll of a novel set largely in an Australian city. It is a layered mystery. It is an enigma wrapped inside an enigma possibly wrapped inside an enigma. It is a book about the complexities of storytelling and idiocracies of writers. I Want Everything is also a debut novel by Dominic Amerena, a writer of such talent we can only hope he doesn't vanish on us.’ (Tony Birch, author of Women and Children)