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Told in the alternating voices of sixteen year-old Maddy and her mother, Eve, All the Water in the World moves between the family’s lake house in Pennsylvania, their home in Washington, DC, and London, as Maddy finds first love, seeks solace in music and art, and tracks down her father, Antonio. Living in the shadow of illness, she has to grow up fast. In voices that range from tender to funny, despairing to defiant, Maddy tests the depths and limits of her closeness with her mother, while Eve has to come to terms with the daughter she only partly knows, in a world she can’t control. Optioned for film by Monumental Pictures / Lionsgate. Rights enquiries to Aitken Alexander Available US: 6th August 2019 Available UK e-book and audio: 20th August 2019 UK publication January 2020 |
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‘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, author of Remember Me Like This
‘An extraordinary achievement for a first novel: tender, heartfelt and heart-breaking.’
--Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill
‘All The Water in the World is a book about life and death, joy and grief fused together, both affirming and heartbreaking. In Eve and teenage Maddy, Karen Raney has created a mother-daughter relationship as fraught and passionate as any in recent memory. "Do everything all at once" is Maddy's philosophy as well as the motto of this kinetic and beautiful book.’
-- Darcey Steinke, author of Flash Count Diary and Easter Everywhere
‘With a lyric and suspenseful intensity reminiscent of Sue Miller, Karen Raney has written an astonishingly moving novel about the boundaries and boundlessness of life and love.’
-- Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance and The Outside of August
‘I loved this. It's captivating and warm and real and I adored being in Maddy and Eve's company. The setting is perfectly described, the characters are perfectly drawn and the story is a layered delight. It almost broke my heart - and entirely restored my faith in human nature.’
-- Janet Ellis, author of How It Was and The Butcher’s Hook
-- Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This
‘An extraordinary achievement for a first novel: tender, heartfelt and heart-breaking.’
--Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill
‘All The Water in the World is a book about life and death, joy and grief fused together, both affirming and heartbreaking. In Eve and teenage Maddy, Karen Raney has created a mother-daughter relationship as fraught and passionate as any in recent memory. "Do everything all at once" is Maddy's philosophy as well as the motto of this kinetic and beautiful book.’
-- Darcey Steinke, author of Flash Count Diary and Easter Everywhere
‘With a lyric and suspenseful intensity reminiscent of Sue Miller, Karen Raney has written an astonishingly moving novel about the boundaries and boundlessness of life and love.’
-- Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance and The Outside of August
‘I loved this. It's captivating and warm and real and I adored being in Maddy and Eve's company. The setting is perfectly described, the characters are perfectly drawn and the story is a layered delight. It almost broke my heart - and entirely restored my faith in human nature.’
-- Janet Ellis, author of How It Was and The Butcher’s Hook
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‘Behind the reluctance to let go of the idea of art may be the belief that it refers to something big, and not wholly nameable, for which a space needs to be held open. New forms and purposes for art will undoubtedly evolve and demand fresh kinds of judgement. The search for something big, for elegance, economy and power – the need to be astonished by the things we make for one another – will perhaps endure.’ Karen Raney, introduction to Art in Question
