Strong characterisation and the voices of both mother and daughter, the main protagonists, hook you in to this lovely book.
This is a story of normal teenage angst of the daughter woven into serious life changing events and having to deal with difficult relationships (father she's never met) and lovely ones too (her grandparents).
This book comes from the narratives of both the daughter and her mother and really makes you think hard about love and life, The plot carries you through to the ending, Full of secrets, emotion and poignancy.

I was drawn to this book as reference had been made to Celeste Ng however for me it just didn’t deliver as I’d hoped it would . The story is narrated by daughter Maddy who is dealing with cancer and also her mother from another perspective. I did warm to Maddy and found the chapters focusing on her were far more moving and if anything would love to have read more and less of her mother . The book is certainly well written but reads more like a YA book and would be something fans of A Fault in our Stars would enjoy . Sadly I wasn’t gripped by the book and for me it was just an average read. Thanks netgalley for this advance copy .

I loved this book so savoured it, reading only parts of it over 3 days rather than devouring it in one sitting. Maddy’s musings on life, the universe and our place in it were so thought provoking and the titular truism that all the worlds water is just endlessly recycled is both lovely and scary in equal measure!
The authors characterisations were very strong, especially Maddy, Eve and Eve’s parents but I felt Robin was less defined and I was never truly sure if Eve really loved him. I was glad that the final chapters had Robin come into his own and be more present rather than on the fringes as he was earlier in the book.
As a mother of 4 children the books realism was hard to take at times and I came away from each reading thanking the Lord that my kids are so rudely healthy. My sorrow at Maddy’s death was real and being able to make me cry is always the mark of a truly brilliant novel.
Having grown up on a lake in the USA, the cabin chapters were my favourite parts, especially her descriptions of the noises frozen lakes make and the discussions about how thick ice needs to be to walk on it.

This book is truly contemporary fiction. It captures the fear and unavoidable evidence of climate change and uses it as a background of slow death of the earth behind the more immediate death of Maddy. I so wish her video was real and I could google it and watch it! Eve and Robin’s memories of driving over lakes in the winter is my memory also and now I live back in the UK it made me realise that my memories are trapped in the 1980’s and that climate change now means the guaranteed snowy winters and foot thick ice are probably consigned to the memories of people my age who still live there. That is a heartbreaking thought for me so I am glad they are locked in my box of memories and that I don’t have to face their reality every year.
Maddy and Jack’s relationship was beautiful and touching and I agree with the author that it was right for Maddy to have experienced sex and love before she died. It just felt right, tender and loving and not at all sensational or explicit. I’m not sure every author could handle it with such sensitivity.

I am definitely looking forward to future books by this author and will be recommending this book to my friends. Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an ARC of this book.

Maddy is a typical teenager. She is sixteen, curious about life, clever and has a boyfriend Jack. She also has her mum, Eve and her partner, Robin and loving grandparents. However, she also has cancer.
She has never met her father, Antonio, but tracks him down with the help of her grandfather and begins to email him.
This is her story. It explores relationships between families when under pressure and also young love and wanting to make a difference.
It will break your heart.

I’d like to thank John Murray Press, Two Roads and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘All The Water In The World’ by Karen Raney in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Maddy is sixteen and wise for her years, and despite having cancer she tries to live life to the full. She has meaningful relationships with her mother Eve and her grandparents and has her first romantic encounter with Jack. Although Maddy has never met her father Antonio who, when he heard of Eve’s pregnancy said he didn’t want to be a father, she does manage to track him down and they connect by writing to each other.

‘All The Water In The World’ is an interesting novel with the narrative told by Eve and Maddy. It tells of the relationship between mother and daughter and describes how Maddy questions her grandparents on the existence of God and the meaning of life. Although it didn’t really hold by attention as much as I’d hoped for, it’s been well-written, is thought-provoking and worth reading.

This was a book that did not hold my interest all the way through. I did not really engage with the characters and feel it was almost a young adult story. I picked it up as it was compared to Celeste Ng but I believe that this was unrealistic. The parts written by Maddy, the daughter with cancer, I found more interesting and thoughtful than her mother, Eve's story.
Unfortunately, although I did read it all it was not for me.

I found this a devastating book and beautifully written. Some really insightful observations and perfectly captured turn of phrase.

Of the dual narratives, I found Maddie's the more engaging. I loved everything about her voice. So many moving and thought-provoking observations. With Eve, I felt her grief keenly but I didn't care as much about some of what happened in her side of the narrative. Really I wanted more of Maddie's perspective.

There is a water theme woven throughout the novel, as you might guess from the title: water and ice and the rising sea levels. I was fascinated by the descriptions of Maddy's animation and what it symbolised, personal and global tragedy. That backdrop of climate change makes everything that happens in the novel more desperate and more poignant, somehow.

The coda, though, left me in floods of tears. It's perhaps the closest I've ever come to feeling what the last few minutes of a life must be like. Almost unbearable.

Not perfect (what is?), but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. 4.5 stars, rounded up to 5.

I picked up this book because it was compared to Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere, a book I am completely in love with. Unfortunately, I just didn't connect to it the way that I did to Ng's work.

However, All the Water in the World is a well written book and the story is interesting. So even though I didn't personally connect to it, this three-star review should be taken as a positive three-star review. I think that even though it is not the book for me, a lot of other people will love it.

Finally, while it is an emotional book that may break your heart, there are also some very life affirming moments that counter the sad ones.

This is a dual narrative, told partly by Maddy, a sixteen-year-old girl with terminal cancer, and partly by her mother, Eve. The whole thing is very character-focused, and I found Maddy's parts more compelling, so sometimes going back to Eve was a bit jarring. There are some beautifully tender moments, and parts were heart breaking, showing real skill on the author's part to make the reader feel so involved with these deeply sad scenes. The parts that were really powerful for me were the moments Maddy explored love and relationships during the time she had left, and the rawness of Eve's grief. I found the storyline with the absent father a bit less engaging - f0r me, the beauty of this was the interaction between mother and daughter,

This book is told from the perspective of a teenage girl called Maddy and her mother. Maddy has cancer and decides that she wants to trace her biological father but doesn't want to tell her mum about it. The novel had a bit of YA feel during the first half and I liked that but during the second half the tone changes and I wasn't as keen on that. The story is ok but I thought most of the stuff about the mum was unnecessary. It's not badly written but it didn't hold my interest.

This is a story about illness, loss and the effect on the family. The book demonstrates the different effects on different members of the family and their relationship with the girl.
I found it sad, upsetting and revealing.
The story of a previous relationship and the way it ended continues throughout the book but the impact of the loss is paramount.

It is well written with substantial impact on the reader and the much loved holiday home and the surrounding area is almost a character in the story.
The final chapter suggests that there is a possibility of healing and future contentment if not happiness following the loss.
Recommended

A roller coaster for emotions but never sloppy, however always gripping, and yes it is truly a page turner.
The story of Eve and her daughter Maddy who has cancer somthing that all of us will have heard of and probably know someone who has had it and may well know of someone close that has died from it. So a emotional subject but what about the lives the fact of lives caring on despite the upheaval the fear,, pain and desperation. This is a novel that deals with the reality and the story from Maddy and from Eve's view. Robin is Eve's partner Jack is Maddy's and Rose and Walter are Eve's parents. There are some other characters that can be recognised from life well I can and I'll let you read about them for yourself.
This is a rich and forthright read dealing with what life has dealt them, Eve & Maddy carry on living there life and then Eve has to deal with what life has dealt her a cruel blow and the past that will catch up with her.
Maddy never knew her Dad and with some gentle help from her Grandpa wants to contact him or at least find him. This all adds to what is a novel that I'm glad I found and I hope you are to. Life may not always if ever be totally predictable and that's why it's important to step out and find out, in my mind that's is. So whatever we find out or don't find will make life more interesting if nothing else, That's what I like about this book you won't know what's coming even when you think you do like life only this is someone else's but it got me totally wrapped up in their story as I face a future waiting to see what it holds I find it a comfort to escape into someone else's whether it be real or not it felt like it was and isn't that how a great book should be.
So in closing my review I would say this is a great book and I can't wait for more of Karen's novels and think you will love this one, I have.

I really liked the sound of the synopsis for this book, however it left me feeling a little frustrated.
I liked Maddie as a character but didn’t feel connected to her which stopped me fully engaging with the storyline. We find out from the start that maddie is 16 and has cancer, had I felt engaged with maddie I’m sure I’d have enjoyed story more but I just couldn’t get along with any of the characters. Her mother just annoyed me!
I found this more to be a story about Eves relationships and I think this is why I was left disappointed? Had more of the Focus been on maddie I might have enjoyed this more.

I wouldn’t say this is like celeste Ng’s little fires everywhere. It had the family atmosphere surrounding it but had more of a stilted plot.

This is the moving story of Maddy as she battles cancer and the effect it has on her mother and the rest of her family and friends. It is poignant and nicely told, avoiding over-sentimentality. However, I did not find it very memorable.

This was such a moving and at times heart-wrenching read, I found myself crying, laughing and everything in between.
The alternate narrative perspectives between Maddy and her mother show the different ways of dealing with illness. I loved Maddy's voice, in the midst of her cancer she manges to stay strong and finds ways to take control of her life in the only ways that are accessible to her.
Her relationships with her friends, family and boyfriend portray the ways that the people closest to Maddy deal with her cancer and how they change towards her, and how Maddy, in turn, changes towards them.

If you want a moving book that really makes you think, I would definitely recommend this book.

This is Karen Raney's debut novel.
The story is told from two points of view. Maddy, who is a 16 year old who is undergoing chemotherapy for cance, and Eve, her mother.
Maddy has been brought up by her mother after finding herself pregnant and the father not wanting to have a baby, or at least not with her. Maddy was supported by her parent's Walter and Rose and latterly by her new partner Robin.
During Maddy's treatment she is encouraged by her grandfather to email her father, he tells her which university he was at and his first name.
This is a very poignant story and beautifully told.
The narrative does jump around a little and can get a bit confusing at times, this may have been down to the copy that I had.

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for my ARC in return for an honest review.

This was such a poignant tale about sixteen year old Maddy who has terminal cancer and how she - her friends and family are coping with such heartbreak .
I had a lump in my throat from page one and it never left.
Keep the tissues close .

Thankyou Net Galley for an ARC in exchange for an honest reveiw.

A moving touching heart wrenching novel.A family characters that drew me in involved me in theirblives struggles highly recommend.#netgalley#johnmurray

Read this book in two days !! Really got to know the characters and feel involved in the family . The story is very sad but inspiring and the characters very real and convincing. .Reading this book brought up many deep questions for me