This Could be Everything
'Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You' VERONICA HENRY
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Publisher Description
'I finished it in a breathless emotional gulp. Truly wonderful, incredibly moving...funny, witty, wise and superbly written...The age beautifully evoked' STEPHEN FRY
From the author of modern classic The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good novel about hope, love and the powerful bond between sisters.
It’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a 15-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of the Face magazine, and Julia Roberts wears thigh-boots for the poster for a new movie called Pretty Woman.
February Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. Then one evening in May she finds an escaped canary in her kitchen and it sparks a glimmer of hope in her. With the help of the bird called Yellow, Feb starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness, just as her aunt embarks on a passionate and all-consuming affair with a married American drama teacher.
A coming-of-age story with its roots under the pavements of a pre-Richard Curtis-era Notting Hill that has all but vanished. It’s about what happens when you start looking after something more important than you, and the hope a yellow bird can bring…
PRAISE FOR THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING:
'Every time I have read one of Eva Rice’s books it has felt like a modern classic. Tender, and acutely observed, the characters of This Could Be Everything have stayed with me. Reading it every night felt like wrapping myself a comfort blanket' JOJO MOYES
'You will rejoice as February gradually finds happiness again, consoled by two little canaries, the treadmill of the Top 40, the rare beauties of Nineties London and finally true love. Eva’s latest story HAS everything' JILLY COOPER
‘Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You’ VERONICA HENRY
‘This is the book I've been waiting my whole life for, a perfect 90s period piece about sisters, it's glam, gorgeous, a little bit melancholic and a lot charming’ DAISY BUCHANAN
‘I’ve never read such a perfect evocation of the 90s; the music, the fashion, the feel. Nor such a summation of youth and loss and love. This book is wise and tender and dazzling. Rice is just a masterful writer’ LAURA BARTON
‘This moving, hopeful and brilliantly told story inhabits the West London of my youth. I loved it’ BETTY BOO
‘A gorgeous story about first love and hope’ RED
'The story of loss, love - and ultimately hope - is beautifully told. You won't be able to put it down' HEAT
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s hard to find fresh ways to write about big emotions but British author Eva Rice aces it here, noting how grief “sits there like a little dickhead, sticking out its foot at random, waiting to trip you up just when you might be feeling your way out of it”. That grief belongs to pop music-mad teenager February Kingdom who, having lost her entire nuclear family, lives with her aunt and uncle in Notting Hill, in the days before it became a movie set. February attempts to move on with her life and so unfurls a story peppered with hope, humour and a lost canary. Kudos to Rice for the impeccably observed 1990s’ pop culture and fashion detail—there’s even a cameo from INXS singer Michael Hutchence, the dreamboat du jour.
