As beautifully written and as profoundly researched as all Julia Blackburn's work

A remarkable evocation of another time and another frame of reference

Julia Blackburn has an extraordinary talent for thinking herlsef into other worlds... Reading her book, you experience the uncanny sensation that you have somehow always known these places

She wears her talents like a modern Renaissance woman with elegance and affable ease

A brilliant and very readable portrait of the mother-daughter relationship

Brown's winning debut teaches a hopeful truth: Sometimes, just as you're starting to drown, things fall back into place.

Part Desperate Housewives, part American Beauty - entirely gripping

A 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

Rarely does a first novelist write with such confidence and grace. 'All We Ever Wanted Was Everything' is a marvelous book

Hill's taut prose exudes a constant darkness... you are left unsettled and haunted by the seeming inevitability of their troubled lives

Taut, tense story, written with that unsparing economy which is such a feature of Hill's recent fiction

The versatile Hill tells a perfectly judged story of people living hard, narrow lives

So well-written, so deeply imagined, that the reader will find delight even in the encircling gloom. Love may not conquer all, but Art can

[Hill] does what all good writers must set out to do: she made me read until I had the answer

Hill’s sparse style provides the perfect medium for exploring this family’s predicament

Hill does a wonderful job of evoking life in this enclosed community

A masterpiece of economy and control