Everyone and Everything

'So utterly, beautifully, awkwardly human you will laugh and howl and cringe in recognition. This is a novel about facing up to the worst of life and stubbornly deciding to go ahead and love it anyway. I adored it.' Emily Maguire 'I couldn't put it down. Humour, in Cohen's hands, is a superpower. She uses it so deftly to tell a story that is, by turns, devastating, life-expanding and laugh-out-loud funny. A luminous debut.' Sarah Krasnostein 'Nadine Cohen is very funny, it's [Everyone and Everything] very observant, very sharp, very funny about families ... It's a terrific book, I really love it.' Annabel Crabb, Chat 10, Looks 3 'This brilliant book doesn't shy away from the rough stuff, exploring the complexity and brutality of life, all the while maintaining a grip on to the occasional simple joy and beauty of it all. I was cackling away at Nadine's unique perspectives one minute, and sobbing the next. A magnificent debut!' Myf Warhurst 'Delicate yet unyielding, fresh yet familiar, Nadine Cohen breathes new life into sad girl lit and redefines the term; a stunning debut, Everyone and Everything is tender, honest and utterly unputdownable. It ruined my weekend plans and turned my world new colours from page one.' Genevieve Novak 'Nadine J. Cohen's debut novel brings together the drama of a young woman's breakdown with comedy reminiscent of Woody Allen or Nora Ephron. Cohen manages the balancing act of her dramedy through the appealing cipher of her first-person female narrator, Yael Silver, who is neurotic and genuinely tested by life, but also spirited and well-dressed.' Saturday Paper 'Everyone and Everything hits the right balance of absurdity and dark humour, essential for a book in which the central theme is death. Cohen weaves Yael's Jewish identity into the narrative with hypnotic ease, and treats [Sydney's] iconic locations the way Nora Ephron treats Manhattan in her writing. Place is an identity-setter and for Yael, it doesn't take her long to realise that [the city] is brimming with sanctuaries that promise hope, love, safety and futurity.' Sydney Morning Herald 'This novel is melancholy, funny and unpredictable – just like its protagonist. A great read.' Allee Richards 'A clever, funny, and very warm novel about illness, death and grief and a lead character that I really wanted to hang out with longer.' Holly Throsby 'Cohen writes exquisitely about sadness, especially about intergenerational trauma and the unimaginable grief of successive loss.' Big Issue 'A stunning debut, Everyone and Everything is an intimate and sensitive exploration not only of grief and inherited trauma but of love and loss, success and failure, and all the things that make us who we are.' Books+Publishing 'Everyone and Everything is a sassy, soulful, current, conversational and truly delightful read. Written in the first person, the heart of the story is its compelling, adorable, flawed and deeply relatable protagonist ... Smart without being smug, insightful and hysterically funny, this novel is destined to be one of the most-loved releases of the year.' Better Reading 'Fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Sad Girl Novel will enjoy this new addition to the rapidly developing canon of socially concerned novels about mental health. It's impressively funny for a story about some very difficult themes but manages to be so without feeling disingenuous or insensitive.' Readings 'Cohen navigates dark themes deftly with pages of brilliant dialogue … This funny, warm novel is an immensely readable contribution to stories from the frontline.' Newtown Review of Books 'One of the best books I've read in ages and ages.' Ewa Ramsey 'This book gave me all the feelings.' John Birmingham