All the Water in the World

  • Author Karen Raney
  • Narrator Gabra Zackman, Rebekkah Ross
  • Publisher John Murray Press
  • Run Time 9 hours and 24 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect

'TENDER, HEARTFELT AND HEART-BREAKING' Francis Spufford
'VERY MOVING, A WARM AND COMPASSIONATE NOVEL' Diana Evans
'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

Maddy is sixteen. Deeply curious, wry and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood. 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 also has cancer. Eve is her mother, desperately caring for the daughter she loves and only partly knows, in a world she can't control.

For fans of Celeste Ng, Jodi Picoult and Delia Owens, All the Water in the World is the story of a family doing its best when faced with the worst. Unforgettable and singularly moving, with voices that range from tender to funny, despairing to defiant, this novel is a poignant testimony to the transformative power of love, humour and hope.

'RANEY IS AN AUTHOR TO WATCH' Booklist
'EXQUISITE' Kirkus

Optioned for film by Monumental Pictures/Lionsgate.

(P) 2019 Simon & Schuster, Inc

Critics Review

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

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

Beautiful, raw, bold, heartfelt, heartbreaking and brave just some of the words to describe this excellent book – one to watch for 2020.

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