2020 Costa Book Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
'TENDER, HEARTFELT AND HEART-BREAKING' Francis Spufford
'VERY MOVING, A WARM AND COMPASSIONATE NOVEL' Diana Evans
Maddy is sixteen. 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 is also dying.
Told alternately by Maddy and her mother, Eve, All the Water in the World is a heart-breaking story of a family doing its best when faced with the worst, and a poignant testimony to the transformative power of love.
'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
Optioned for film by Monumental Pictures/Lionsgate.
Genre: General Fiction
'VERY MOVING, A WARM AND COMPASSIONATE NOVEL' Diana Evans
Maddy is sixteen. 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 is also dying.
Told alternately by Maddy and her mother, Eve, All the Water in the World is a heart-breaking story of a family doing its best when faced with the worst, and a poignant testimony to the transformative power of love.
'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
Optioned for film by Monumental Pictures/Lionsgate.
Genre: General Fiction
Praise for this book
"CAPTIVATING AND WARM AND REAL." - Janet Ellis
"ASTONISHINGLY MOVING." - Joanna Hershon
"Karen Raney is a writer of rare gifts - nuanced characters, shimmering prose, and a riveting story. All the Water in the World is heart-rending in its power and gorgeous in its telling, a deeply rewarding and wholly unforgettable debut novel." - Bret Anthony Johnston
"Tough subject matter ... tackled with real insight in beautifully written prose." - Blake Morrison
"An extraordinary achievement for a first novel: tender, heartfelt and heart-breaking." - Francis Spufford
"ASTONISHINGLY MOVING." - Joanna Hershon
"Karen Raney is a writer of rare gifts - nuanced characters, shimmering prose, and a riveting story. All the Water in the World is heart-rending in its power and gorgeous in its telling, a deeply rewarding and wholly unforgettable debut novel." - Bret Anthony Johnston
"Tough subject matter ... tackled with real insight in beautifully written prose." - Blake Morrison
"An extraordinary achievement for a first novel: tender, heartfelt and heart-breaking." - Francis Spufford
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