Author:Janelle Brown
Janice Miller knows this: she loves her husband, her two spirited daughters and the beautiful home in which she has raised her family. But what she doesn't know is how to stay afloat when a devastating discovery tears that familiar world apart.
It is only once the damage has been done that she finally realises how distant her daughters have become - and that schoolgirl Lizzie and 28-year-old Margaret now have dark secrets of their own. After years of following separate lives, they are reluctantly drawn back together under the same roof.It's the outside world that has unravelled their dreams, but what they all fear most now is each other. Yet it's there, in the family home, that they are forced to confront their crises - and where, slowly, each of them begins to heal.
One family, three women and a whole heap of problems collide spectacularly in this highly accomplished debut. But the secrets and lies which shatter this cosy slice of suburbia resonate far and wide
—— Daily MirrorThree Californian women hold centre stage in this likeable tale ... The main characters are sympathetically drawn and their lives adroitly captured
—— Mail on SundayA withering Silicon Valley satire . . . Brown's hip narrative reads like a sharp, contemporary twist on The Corrections.
—— Publishers WeeklyBrown's beauty of a book believably puts it out there that you can go home again, but only if you're willing to genuinely care for and about each other
—— New York Daily NewsA brilliant and very readable portrait of the mother-daughter relationship
—— CandisBrown's winning debut teaches a hopeful truth: Sometimes, just as you're starting to drown, things fall back into place.
—— PeoplePart Desperate Housewives, part American Beauty - entirely gripping
—— ScarletA razor-sharp critique of the absurd expectations that, these days, have come to stand for ambition, "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" is wrenching, riveting, and still manages to be great fun. This is a wise, intimate chronicle of one family's struggle to take off their masks and live in the place they most feared: the real, imperfect world
—— Meghan Daum, author of 'The Quality of Life Report'Rarely does a first novelist write with such confidence and grace. 'All We Ever Wanted Was Everything' is a marvelous book
—— Ayelet Waldman, author of "Love and Other Impossible PursuitsHill's taut prose exudes a constant darkness... you are left unsettled and haunted by the seeming inevitability of their troubled lives
—— StylistTaut, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill's recent fiction
—— Matthew Dennison , The TimesThe versatile Hill tells a perfectly judged story of people living hard, narrow lives
—— ObserverSo well-written, so deeply imagined, that the reader will find delight even in the encircling gloom. Love may not conquer all, but Art can
—— Scotsman[Hill] does what all good writers must set out to do: she made me read until I had the answer
—— M J Hyland , GuardianHill’s sparse style provides the perfect medium for exploring this family’s predicament
—— Matthew Dennison , The TImesHill does a wonderful job of evoking life in this enclosed community
—— Emma Hagestadt , IndependentA masterpiece of economy and control
—— Good Book Guide
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