This Could be Everything

'Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You' VERONICA HENRY

Eva Rice

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781398510197
• eBook ISBN:
  9781398510180
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

'I finished it in a breathless emotional gulp. Truly wonderful, incredibly moving...funny, witty, wise and superbly written...The age beautifully evoked' STEPHEN FRY

From the author of modern classic The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good novel about hope, love and the powerful bond between sisters.

It’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a 15-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of the Face magazine, and Julia Roberts wears thigh-boots for the poster for a new movie called Pretty Woman.

February Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. Then one evening in May she finds an escaped canary in her kitchen and it sparks a glimmer of hope in her. With the help of the bird called Yellow, Feb starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness, just as her aunt embarks on a passionate and all-consuming affair with a married American drama teacher.

A coming-of-age story with its roots under the pavements of a pre-Richard Curtis-era Notting Hill that has all but vanished. It’s about what happens when you start looking after something more important than you, and the hope a yellow bird can bring…

PRAISE FOR THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING:

'Every time I have read one of Eva Rice’s books it has felt like a modern classic. Tender, and acutely observed, the characters of This Could Be Everything have stayed with me. Reading it every night felt like wrapping myself a comfort blanket' JOJO MOYES

'You will rejoice as February gradually finds happiness again, consoled by two little canaries, the treadmill of the Top 40, the rare beauties of Nineties London and finally true love. Eva’s latest story HAS everything' JILLY COOPER

‘Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You’ VERONICA HENRY

‘This is the book I've been waiting my whole life for, a perfect 90s period piece about sisters, it's glam, gorgeous, a little bit melancholic and a lot charming’ DAISY BUCHANAN

‘I’ve never read such a perfect evocation of the 90s; the music, the fashion, the feel. Nor such a summation of youth and loss and love. This book is wise and tender and dazzling. Rice is just a masterful writer’ LAURA BARTON

‘This moving, hopeful and brilliantly told story inhabits the West London of my youth. I loved it’ BETTY BOO

‘A gorgeous story about first love and hope’ RED

'The story of loss, love - and ultimately hope - is beautifully told. You won't be able to put it down' HEAT

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter 1: Yellow
• Chapter 2: Knight of the Burning Pestle
• Chapter 3: The Trench Effect
• Chapter 4: Little Earthquakes
• Chapter 5: The Box
• Chapter 6: Boy. London.
• Chapter 7: Birds of the City
• Chapter 8: The Ball
• Chapter 9: Useful is God
• Chapter 10: ‘It’
• Chapter 11: Won’t Be Long
• Chapter 12: Three Moon Monday
• Chapter 13: On Paper
• Chapter 14: Cool/Hot
• Chapter 15: The Rapture: Part 1
• Chapter 16: Valentine
• Chapter 17: The Open Cage
• Chapter 18: Kate
• Chapter 19: Double A Side
• Chapter 20: Kick
• Chapter 21: Faint Lines
• Chapter 22: Variations on a Theme
• Chapter 23: We Always Hang in a Buffalo Stance
• Chapter 24: The World According to Gregory Arrowsmith
• Chapter 25: Charlie
• Chapter 26: Pop!
• Chapter 27: Sweet-faced Youth
• Chapter 28: The Deepest Point
• Chapter 29: The Other Side of the Page
• Chapter 30: Tell Her to Be Careful
• Chapter 31: Something Between Your Fingers
• Chapter 32: Gone
• Chapter 33: Pretty Yellow Things
• Chapter 34: Court
• Chapter 35: The Driver’s Seat
• Chapter 36: Signals from the Deep
• Epilogue
• Afterword
• Acknowledgements
• A Note About Quoted Lyrics
• Copyright