Meet Leah and Chris; raised on Harry Potter, New Labour and a belief that one day they would be as βspecialβ as their parents promised. But what happens when those dreams donβt become reality? All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is a three-act anthem set across three decades, from 1997βs Cool Britanni
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
β Scribed by Brown, Janelle
- Book ID
- 109519572
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 388 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385526890
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β¦ Synopsis
A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer.
When Paul Miller's pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she's been waiting years for -- until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers' older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she's become the school...
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