Everything We Ever Wanted
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Description de l’éditeur
How do you choose between your family and your history? Emotional and compelling storytelling from Sara Shepard, author of All the Things We Didn’t Say.
A late-night phone call on a Sunday evening rarely brings good news. So when Sylvie, a recently-widowed mother of two, receives a call from the head teacher of the school she's on the board of, she knows it won't be something she wants to hear. The school was founded by her grandfather, and she's inherited everything he strived to build up – a reputation, a heritage, the school and the grand old family house. And with this inheritance comes responsibility.
So when her son Scott is whispered to be involved in a scandal that led to the death of one of the boys he coaches at the school, it throws the family into chaos: Sylvie has to decide between her loyalty to the school that has been part of her family legacy for years and her son who she feels wants nothing to do with her. She starts spying on the dead boy's father, making an unlikely connection.
Sara Shepard's compelling new novel tells how hard it can be to really, truly connect to people, how making quick, easy judgments can come back to haunt you, and how the life you always planned for – and always dreamed of – often doesn't always turn out the way you imagined at all…
Reviews
‘Wonderfully complex and human and very, very difficult to put down’
Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Love in the Present Tense
‘A touching story…Shepard’s writing brings her sweet, troubled characters alive’
Heat
‘This beautifully written story is complex, emotional and totally absorbing’
Closer
About the author
Sara Shepard graduated from NYU and has an MFA from Brooklyn College. She is the author of the bestselling young adult series, Pretty Little Liars series, and the adult novel All The Things We Didn’t Say. She currently lives outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her husband and dogs.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
YA author Shepard (Pretty Little Liars) aims for adult readers with this expertly rendered novel of family dysfunction set in moneyed Main Line Philadelphia. Recently widowed Sylvie Bates-McAllister runs the board of directors at Swithin School, a prestigious prep school founded by her grandfather. When Sylvie learns that her adopted adult son, Scott, may be responsible for the hazing death of a student he coached on the school's wrestling team, she fears the worst and worries about how the scandal will affect her family name. Sylvie's biological son, Charles estranged from his brother since an ugly incident on the night of their high school graduation is more concerned with his marital troubles than the hazing scandal. Now living in the suburbs, Charles frets over wife Joanna's growing restlessness. Joanna, meanwhile, feels excluded from the neighborhood clique and Charles's relationship with his mother, as well as disappointed by her marriage into this supposedly perfect upper-class family. As Shepard moves through time and shifts between the perspectives of her main characters, the inner lives of the Bates-McAllisters resonate more than the actual plot. Readers will respond as this family grapples with their many long-held secrets.
