All the Water in the World

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781473694903

Price: £16.99

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‘VERY MOVING, A WARM AND COMPASSIONATE NOVEL’ Diana Evans
‘TENDER, HEARTFELT AND HEART-BREAKING’ Francis Spufford
Optioned for film by Monumental Pictures/Lionsgate. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2020

Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she’s unusually close, a father she’s never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy is also dying.

Told alternately by Maddy and her mother, Eve, All the Water in the World is a heart-breaking story of a family doing its best when faced with the worst, and a poignant testimony to the transformative power of love.

‘DEEPLY REWARDING AND WHOLLY UNFORGETTABLE’ Bret Anthony Johnston
‘CAPTIVATING AND WARM AND REAL’ Janet Ellis ‘ASTONISHINGLY MOVING’ Joanna Hershon
‘A TENDER BRUISE OF A NOVEL’ Mary Paulson-Ellis

Reviews

Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure. Unafraid to probe the complexities of parenthood and partnership, Raney is an author to watch
Booklist
An exquisite tracing of the tangled lines of mother-daughter love, loss, and grief
Kirkus
Very moving, a warm and compassionate novel with two arresting voices
Diana Evans, author of ORDINARY PEOPLE
This tender bruise of a novel captures a mother and her teenage daughter in a heart-rending moment of change. Full of both joy and despair, its careful elegant prose dissects the tragedies of life and death with aplomb
Mary Paulson-Ellis, author of THE OTHER MRS WALKER
Beautiful, raw, bold, heartfelt, heartbreaking and brave just some of the words to describe this excellent book - one to watch for 2020.
CenSational Reads