All That Life Can Afford: Reese's Book Club (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK
“An effervescent debut chock full of Austenian nods. Swoonworthy!” —Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author of Mustique Island
“All That Life Can Afford is about love, ambition, and the cost of belonging, and I cannot stop thinking about it.” —Reese Witherspoon
A young American woman navigates class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite.
I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new.
Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives after college, the real London is a moldy flat and the same paycheck-to-paycheck grind—that fairy-tale life still out of reach.
Then Anna meets the Wilders, who fly her to Saint-Tropez to tutor their teenage daughter. Swept up by the sphinxlike elder sister, Anna soon finds herself plunged into a heady whirlpool of parties and excess, a place where confidence is a birthright. There she meets two handsome young men—one who wants to whisk her into his world in a chauffeured car, the other who sees through Anna’s struggle to outrun her past. It’s like she’s stepped into the pages of a glittering new novel, but what will it cost her to play the part?
Sparkling with intelligence and insight, All That Life Can Afford peels back the glossy layers of class and privilege, exploring what it means to create a new life for yourself that still honors the one you’ve left behind.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A flawed, ambitious, and utterly relatable woman tries to find her way in this sharp coming-of-age story. Anna, an American from an underprivileged background, moves to London to pursue a master’s degree and try to build the life she’s always fantasized about. After taking a job tutoring the daughter of a wealthy family, she’s suddenly thrust into a glittering world of luxury, parties, and quiet power, where she meets the incredibly handsome Callum and charming womanizer Theo. But it’s not all smooth sailing, and cracks quickly begin to appear. We loved the glamorous, ultra-rich depictions of life in London and the south of France and the fun references to classic British literature. The whole novel is like a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with the high-low juxtaposition of Anna’s situation and themes of class and privilege. If you love the incisive social commentary of Sally Rooney’s novels or the intoxicating hedonism of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Emily Everett’s observant debut novel is absolutely for you.
