All's Well

The tragicomic novel of the summer, a dark and insane gem from the author of the critically acclaimed TikTok sensation Bunny A dazzling wild ride of a novel daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical. George Saunders All's Well is an utterly delicious novel of pain and vitality, Shakespeare and the uncanny. Lauren Groff Miranda Fitch s 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 she s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare s All s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda s past and a tantalizing promise for her one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what s coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that s kept her from the spotlight is made prose Margaret Atwood has described as no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged... genius , Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All s Well 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. Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award.