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  • This Could Be Everything

  • By: Eva Rice
  • Narrated by: Jessica Alade
  • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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This Could Be Everything

By: Eva Rice
Narrated by: Jessica Alade
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Summary

The perfect, feel-good, comforting read to cosy up with as the nights draw in. Escape to 1990, Notting Hill, first love, and hope.

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

'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

‘The most gorgeous feel-good story about love and grief and how the smallest things can start a journey of healing.’ GEORGINA MOORE, author of
The Garnett Girls

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

'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

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.

THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is 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…

'A beautiful, atmospheric, brilliantly observed thing of joy. Eva Rice is a fantastic observer and relayer of the human experience. Absolutely wonderful' Mel Giedroyc

'A beautiful balm of a book full of hope and possibility, This Could Be Everything will break your heart and piece it back together again with wit, warmth and magic. The way Rice weaves together fiction and reality is delicious, with details on every page that will have pop fans, Londoners and 90s nostalgics squealing with delight. Nobody captures the exhilaration of first love and teen fandom quite like her' Lauren Bravo

‘A reason to be cheerful - THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING 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

‘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

‘A moving novel about sisterhood, grief and first love’ Good Housekeeping

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

©2023 Eva Rice (P)2023 Simon & Schuster, UK
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Easy to follow

Easy story to follow. Nice to listen to something based in ‘real’ London and to hear the name checks of some real characters on the music scene back then. The Narrator's accents took a bit of getting used to but as the story went on they made more sense.

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Beautifully written as only Eva Rice can.

I loved this book and cried when it was finished. Please don't leave it so long next time Eva. It was joyous amd the narration was wonderful. Thank you, thank you, thank you ❤️

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Found very difficult to follow and get into the flow. However did enjoy the story and wanted finish it, but something I wouldt rush to listen to again. Maybe to do with the narrator.

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oh Eva ❤️

the book was great, as expected, but the narrator doing the NY accent for Gregory was really grating and when she did Northern for Theo she sounded like Claire from Happy Valley (that one didn't bother me, just an observation lol)

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