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.
