All That Life Can Afford - Audiobook Review

Title: All That Life Can Afford

Author: Emily Everett

Publisher: Putnam

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Despite this being an April @reesesbookclub pick, I haven’t seen very much about this one.  I’m here to change your mind!

{Thank you @prhaudio for the #gifted listening copy of All That Life Can Afford by debut author Emily Everett.  This book is narrated by Alex Finke, who I love.  I only recently learned that she is a broadway performer, which I can absolutely see based on how well she preforms books!}

▪️Set in London

▪️Drama

▪️Romance

▪️Grief

▪️Class Divides 

▪️Privilege 

▪️Wealth

▪️P&P Retelling

All That Life Can Afford is a juicy coming-of-age story.  It’s a tale as old as time, the large gap between the extremely wealthy society and those just scrapping by trying to chase their dreams.

Anna has always had a dream to study in London and move as far away from her poor upbringing in a small town outside of Boston.  Her family was so poor, most months they couldn’t even afford diabetes medication for her late mother.  She just assumed she could show up somewhere different and her life would immediately change.  But she quickly realizes it’s the same old, same old.  No matter how many tutoring gigs she takes or shifts at the bar she works, it’s never enough.

Then she meets the Wilder family.

They fly her to Saint-Topez from London to tutor their teenage daughter.  With tutoring only taking up a few hours a day, the rest of the time she dips herself into the world the rich and elite.  A world of chauffeured cars, exclusive restaurants, yacht parties…

Anna would do anything to stay in this world.  It’s what she has always wanted.  Or is it?

“You don’t have to be this specific just right person for everyone to like you.  You don’t have to wear the fancy clothes, you don’t have to show them the just good parts of you.  I know they’ll like you with all the complicated parts.  You should give them a chance too.”

Smartly written.  Loads of fun.  Found Family.  Finding yourself.  I give this one 4.5 ⭐️