All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

A withering Silicon Valley satire . . . Brown's hip narrative reads like a sharp, contemporary twist on The Corrections.

Publishers Weekly

One family, three women and a whole heap of problems collide spectacularly in this highly accomplished debut. But the secrets and lies which shatter this cosy slice of suburbia resonate far and wide

Daily Mirror

Brown's beauty of a book believably puts it out there that you can go home again, but only if you're willing to genuinely care for and about each other

New York Daily News

A brilliant and very readable portrait of the mother-daughter relationship

Candis

Three Californian women hold centre stage in this likeable tale ... The main characters are sympathetically drawn and their lives adroitly captured

Mail on Sunday

Brown's winning debut teaches a hopeful truth: Sometimes, just as you're starting to drown, things fall back into place.

People

Part Desperate Housewives, part American Beauty - entirely gripping

Scarlet

A razor-sharp critique of the absurd expectations that, these days, have come to stand for ambition, "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" is wrenching, riveting, and still manages to be great fun. This is a wise, intimate chronicle of one family's struggle to take off their masks and live in the place they most feared: the real, imperfect world

Meghan Daum, author of 'The Quality of Life Report'

Rarely does a first novelist write with such confidence and grace. 'All We Ever Wanted Was Everything' is a marvelous book

Ayelet Waldman, author of "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits