This Could be Everything

From the author of ‘modern vintage classic’ The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nostalgic book-club novel about loss, hope and the powerful bond between sisters.

It’s 1990 and the streets are filled with colour, life and the pulse of music from around the world. But behind the front door at St Quentin Avenue, nineteen-year-old February Kingdom is Not OK. Her parents were killed at the King’s Cross fire two years ago, and her twin sister - beautiful, vibrant, lovable Diana - died in a car crash just six months ago.

Then, one evening in May, she finds an escaped canary called Yellow in her kitchen, and it sparks a glimmer of hope in her. When its owner, Theo who works in the pet shop down the road, gives Yellow to Feb to look after, and she starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness.

This is a story about being a sister when your sister is gone, of loss of overcoming grief, and of the bliss of first love. It’s also about what happens when you start looking after something more important than you, and of the hope a little yellow bird can bring…

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

‘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