It All Comes Down to This, Therese Anne Fowler
It All Comes Down to This, Therese Anne Fowler
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It All Comes Down to This
A Novel

Author: Therese Anne Fowler

Narrator: Barrie Kreinik

Unabridged: 11 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2022


Synopsis

Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This is a warm, keenly perceptive novel of sisterhood, heartbreak, home, and what it takes to remake a life at its halfway point, for fans of Ann Patchett and Emma Straub.

Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic, widowed mother, Marti, will be dying soon and taking her secrets with her. Marti has ensured that her modest estate is easy for her family to deal with once she’s gone––including a provision that the family’s summer cottage on Mount Desert Island, Maine, must be sold, the proceeds split equally between the three girls.

Beck, the eldest, is a freelance journalist whose marriage looks more like a sibling bond than a passionate partnership. In fact, her husband Paul is hiding a troubling truth about his love life. For Beck, the Maine cottage has been essential to her secret wish to write a novel––and to remake the terms of her relationship.

Despite her accomplishments as a pediatric cardiologist, Claire, the middle daughter, has always felt like the Geller misfit. Recently divorced, Claire’s secret unrequited love for the wrong man is slowly destroying her, and she’s finding that her expertise on matters of the heart unfortunately doesn’t extend to her own.

Youngest daughter Sophie appears to live an Instagram-ready life, filled with glamorous work and travel, celebrities, fashion, art, and sex. In reality, her existence is a cash-strapped house of cards that may crash at any moment.

Enter C.J. Reynolds, an enigmatic southerner ex-con with his own hidden past, who complicates the situation. All is not what it seems, and everything is about to change.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

About Therese Anne Fowler

THERESE ANNE FOWLER is the New York Times bestselling author of A Good Neighborhood, A Well-Behaved Woman, and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Raised in the Midwest, she migrated to North Carolina in 1995. She holds a B.A. in sociology/cultural anthropology and an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terrie on December 07, 2022

"It All Comes Down to This" by Therese Anne Fowler is a "Sisters' Story". After the death of their widowed mother, Marti, the Geller sisters, Beck, Claire, and Sophie come together in Manhattan to mourn their loss. Then the work begins of following Marti's last wish: selling the beloved family summer......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on June 21, 2022

**Many thanks to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and Therese Anne Fowler for an ARC of this book! Now available as of 6.7!** What it all comes down to Is that everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine 'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket And the other one is giving a high five Three sisters perhaps need......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine on June 08, 2022

It All Comes Down to This is a slowly-paced family drama. Marti Geller knows she will be dying soon. It’s only a matter of days. She has organized everything herself, including the directive to sell her summer cottage to lessen the burden on her daughters after she’s gone. There’s just one final sec......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on May 20, 2022

2.5 stars I loved Fowler’s last book, A Good Neighborhood. It was sad, but moving and relevant. I had high hopes for this novel. I was drawn in at the beginning wanting to know Marti’s secret that she had kept from her family. When we are introduced to CJ who crosses paths with Marti’s daughters, I w......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on January 12, 2022

Review posted to blog: [URL not allowed] It All Comes Down to This: Unfortunately, this Book Was a Let Down for me. And I had VERY High Hopes. I SIMPLY adored Therese Anne Fowler’s prior book A Good Neighborhood. It was in fact one of my favorite reads of 2019. I, therefore, co......more