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“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.
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- ISBN: 9780593545164
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- ISBN: 9780593545164
- File size: 1904 KB
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- English
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Starred review from March 1, 2025
When Anna's mom and best friend passes away before her college graduation, she's devastated. Seeking out the adventures she'd planned with her mom, she chooses to go abroad to Queen Mary University of London for her master's in literature. Even as her new friends support her, she finds herself over-worked (two jobs and a full course-load) until she's invited to St. Tropez for the winter holidays as a tutor for a rich family's kid. There, introduced to a different way of living, she's distracted by new friends and the perks of their uber-wealth, and starts to lose focus on her own plans. Can she navigate temptation while achieving her own dreams? The author does a bang-up job in having Anna pull from Jane Austen, highlighting how timeless fiction can be. So many new and interesting ideas around Austen's characters and settings are introduced through Anna's dissertation thoughts, while also enhancing our understanding and emotional connection to the characters of this book. Allowing for grand mistakes and equally impressive repairing of relationships, readers will feel as if they've been given new insights into how to gain self-awareness and comfort in their own journeys. A must-read for Janeites or fans of Marian Keyes, Helen Fielding, Sophie Kineslla, or Jane Green.COPYRIGHT(2025) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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