It All Comes Down to This - by Therese Anne Fowler (Paperback)

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A JUNE 2022 INDIE NEXT PICK

"A true page-turner." --Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful
"A smart and lively novel." --Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins
"Austenesque...this goes down as easily as an Aperol spritz." --Publishers Weekly

With her keen eye for human foibles and emotional truth, humor and deep feeling, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This delivers a stylish, insightful take on the dysfunctional family dramedy.

Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic mother, Marti, will be dying soon.

Beck, the eldest, is a freelance journalist whose marriage has long been devoid of passion, and she's recently begun to suspect that her husband, Paul, is hiding something from her. Though middle sister Claire is an accomplished pediatric cardiologist, her own heart is a mess, and her unrequited love for the wrong man is slowly destroying her. And while Sophie, the youngest, appears to have an Instagram-ready life of glamorous work and travel, her true existence is a cash-strapped house of cards that may fall at any moment.

But Marti's will surprises them with its provision that the family's summer cottage in Maine must be sold, the proceeds split equally between the three sisters. While there's a ready buyer in C.J. Reynolds, he's an ex-con with a complicated past and a tangled history with one of the women.

Choices and consequences, mistakes and misapprehensions, obligations and desires: before long, everyone in this cast of indelible characters will have to come to terms with the ways their lives have turned out differently than they expected, as well as the secrets they've been keeping from each other--and themselves.

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"Sparkling...All you could want in a beach read: three sisters with secrets; a summer house in Maine to be sold off (or not); a sexy stranger from out of town who's looking to buy; and no problem that can't be satisfyingly resolved before the story ends." --Library Journal (starred review)

"Can you say perfect porch read?" --CNN.com

"Fowler has done it again." --GMA.com

"A tightly coiled family saga...Fowler expertly peels back the layers of each character in this page-turner, making for a highly entertaining summer read." --Booklist

"Austenesque...this goes down as easily as an Aperol spritz." --Publishers Weekly

"A smart and lively novel, one that had me turning its pages faster and faster, wondering if this indelible family could really untangle the deep lies that reveal an even deeper truth." --Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins

"It All Comes Down to This answered a need I didn't even know I had--to read a big-hearted novel about middle-aged women reckoning with their own heavy secrets, and each other. This novel is entertaining, in the best sense of the word, and a true page-turner." --Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful

"Fowler writes like a contemporary Edith Wharton, peeling back layers of class and custom to reveal the mysteries of love, longing, and fate. It All Comes Down to This is a stunning tale of people struggling to wring the most from their lives while facing the uncertainty of what their lives should be." --Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of When Ghosts Come Home

"A compulsively readable, thoroughly enjoyable tale of three sisters, their histories, their problems, and their unraveling secrets. Contemporary, but with a delightfully Austenish tone, I read it in a single gulp." --Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

"Fowler sure is fond of setting off big surprise-bombs in her novels--revelations that would have most families looking for a rug to sweep everything under. But you haven't met the Geller sisters. Three women whose chosen way to deal with sibling betrayals, sub-optimal husbands, artistic and financial failure, perverse directives from their mother's will, and last-gasp chances for love is to plow right through the middle, the hard way. What it comes down to is this: Fowler's insight into the way we re-open ourselves for love, time and again, speaks stirringly to the heart." --Wilton Barnhardt, New York Times bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway

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