Everything You Ever Wanted
- Author Luiza Sauma
- Narrator Stephanie Racine
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 9 hours and 40 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Dystopian and utopian fiction, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place.
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What to expect
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything You Ever Wanted written by Luiza Sauma, read by Stephanie Racine.
You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after expensive drink until you're so blackout drunk you can't remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up in bed with your colleague. The next day you stay in bed until the afternoon, scrolling through your social media feeds and wondering why everyone else seems to be achieving so much. Sometimes you don't get out of bed at all.
Then you hear about Life on Nyx, a programme that allows 100 lucky winners the chance to escape it all, move to another planet and establish a new way of life. One with meaning and purpose. One without Instagram and online dating. There's one caveat: if you go, you can never come back.
But you aren't worried about that.
After all, what on Earth could there possibly be to miss?
Critics Review
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Sauma skewers the falsities and disappointments of contemporary life and work with rare sensitivity, unfolding an evocative narrative of unearthly escape. I loved it
Megan Hunter, author of 'The End We Start From' -
Every now and then, a book comes along and pins down the wild thoughts that have been circling around in your brain as you question the meaning of your life in the bath at midnight. Manages to sensitively unpack the frustrations of modern life while appreciating how funny the banality of it all is
Refinery29 -
An important and poignant novel that captures the ennui, panic and stubborn optimism of the zeitgeist with spirit, humour and a fearless portrayal of human truth
Helen Cullen, author of 'The Lost Letters of William Woolf' -
Beautifully written . . . Everything You Ever Wanted explores our current obsession with a meaningful life
Bookseller -
Everything You Ever Wanted is one of the most original and urgent novels I’ve read this year. Sauma dives under the skin of the way we live now and makes it into an astonishing new shape. Funny, heart-breaking and thought-provoking – a novel that talks about all the things we are most afraid to talk about. Read it!
Clare Fisher , author 'All the Good Things' -
Sauma’s wondrous novel could not be more timely. Captures the era of social media addiction and status anxiety perfectly. . . . with echoes of The Truman Show and 1984
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