"A dazzling wild ride of a novel β daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical.Β Β Mona Awad isΒ aΒ powerfulΒ and poeticΒ storyteller, telling us something new and profoundΒ hereΒ aboutΒ the connection betweenΒ sufferingΒ andΒ elation.Β When I was away from this book, I longed to get back to it."Β βΒ George Saunders,Β New York TimesΒ bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author ofΒ Lincoln in the Bardo
"WildΒ and exhilarating and so fresh it takes yourΒ breath away,Β All's WellΒ is an utterly delicious novel of pain and vitality, Shakespeare and the uncanny, and our own subtle moral failures when we brush up againstΒ the pain of others. Mona Awad's talent is so vital that it absolutely roars out of her. "Β βΒ Lauren Groff,Β New York TimesΒ bestselling author ofΒ Fates and Furies
"Tragic, macabre, and wicked. I laughed out loud the whole way through. One of the funniest books Iβve read in years."Β βΒ Heather O'Neill, author ofΒ The Lonely Hearts Hotel
"Really funny ... The satirical targets, all brilliantly hit, include useless physios, entitled students, internet advertising and β for all you romantics out thereΒ β love!" Wendy Holden in theΒ Daily MailΒ
Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
Miranda Fitchβs life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now sheβs on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on ShakespeareβsΒ Allβs Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on stagingΒ MacbethΒ instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.
Thatβs when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Mirandaβs past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get whatβs coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain thatβs kept her from the spotlight is made known.
With prose Margaret Atwood has described as βno punches pulled, no hilarities dodged...genius,β Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet.Β Allβs WellΒ is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.