All That Life Can Afford: A Novel

**A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award
“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.