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. An E! New Spring Book A Harper's Bazaar Best Book Coming Out This Spring A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Spring A Washington Post Noteworthy Book for April A Woman's World Best Beach Read to Devour This Summer An Apple Books Must Listen Audiobook of April A BookBub Best New Popular Fiction This Month "This glittering debut novel could easily be seen as a love letter to London." -- Harper's Bazaar "The Jane Austen nods, alluring European settings and messy main characters made this one of my favorite reads of 2025." -- USA Today "This book is like drinking a lavender latte in a sunlit cafe in London while journaling about your quarter-life crisis. It's charming, nostalgic and wise in that 'let me hold your hand while you cry, then make you laugh five minutes later' kind of way." -- Page Six " All That Life Can Afford absolutely sparkles. It's somehow completely romantic even as it plays with the conventions of romance... and it's a book with the tenderness of grief at its heart. Emily Everett is a massive talent." --Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich "This lyrical coming-of-age debut novel by Emily Everett is a Reese's Book Club pick filled with Austenian flair, sweeping settings and a complex cast of characters." -- Woman's World "A wildly entertaining fish-out-of-water story meets Cinderella fairy tale [and] an effervescent debut chock full of Austenian nods. Swoonworthy!" --Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author of Mustique Island "Populated by beautiful people with good wardrobes and big hearts, the novel is fun vicarious living for the reader, but Everett keeps the stakes in sight at all times. Readers can feel the nervous edge with which Anna moves through the world, making this a gripping read from start to finish. Engaging and grounded, this novel will keep you guessing." -- Kirkus "Everett debuts with an exquisite retelling of Pride and Prejudice , about an American tutor in contemporary Europe...Much of the deceptively breezy narrative unfolds against a backdrop of lush scenery and lavish dinners and parties. Along the way, Everett sharply conveys Anna's acute and sometimes self-destructive longing for acceptance. This erudite romance is deeply satisfying." -- Publishers Weekly (starred) "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 Kinsella, or Jane Green." -- Booklist (starred) "There's no one who romanticizes her life better than Anna Byrne, who has lived her whole life wishing she was a quirky Austenian heroine, and then suddenly, with some luck and a lot of nerve, she is. Languid, escapist, romantic, and just so fun to read, All That Life Can Afford feels like an amalgam of all the most interesting Austenian protagonists - except in this novel she is a millennial American from Massachusetts thrust into the wealthiest, most fashionable set of contemporary London. Emily Everett captures, with a wry smirk, the optimism and confusion of coming of age, of falling in love, and of trying to fit in - while everything threatens to fall apart. She asks the age-old question - if you change what you appear to be, can you change who you really are? Jane Austen would be proud." --Vanessa Chan, i