All In

Reviews / Votes

Intensely funny... profoundly touching... a very superior literary beach read, the sort of book that you need to finish urgently but that lives on in your head for years -- India Knight * Sunday Times * Captures the reality of various relationships on the rocks with startling accuracy and emotional intimacy. I laughed, I cried, I couldn't pull my eyes away -- Daisy Jones * Vogue Best Beach Reads 2026 * Perfectly observed characters in the pressure cooker of an all-inclusive holiday... I loved it -- Luke Kennard * Guardian * Powell excels at writing about the thousands of paper cuts that kill a relationship and does it with humour and honesty * Good Housekeeping * A brilliantly relatable novel... superb -- Zoe West * Woman & Home * I couldn't stop reading... Claire Powell is a real talent -- JENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things I was having such fun reading that its emotional undertow caught me off guard. I had tears in my eyes at the end -- REBECCA WAIT, author of I'm Sorry You Feel That Way Elegant, sensitive and sympathetic -- JESSICA STANLEY, author of Consider Yourself Kissed Quietly devastating. Not a word out of place -- SARAH VAUGHAN, author of Anatomy of a Scandal An exquisitely observed, propulsively plotted story of a family in free fall -- JOE DUNTHORNE, author of Submarine A deliciously messy tale of marriage, money, and miscommunication -- CHLOE ASHBY, author of Wet Paint As funny and sad as a dropped ice cream -- ANDREW HUNTER MURRAY, author of A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering A beautifully nuanced and completely gripping exploration of love, family and marriage by an exceptionally gifted writer -- LISA OWENS, author of Not Working Brilliantly observed and beautifully written. It takes real genius to turn a believably awful family holiday into a painful, funny and touching examination of a marriage... I loved it -- LISSA EVANS, author of Old Baggage A painfully funny, honest and compassionate novel written with superb precision and psychological acuity -- CHETNA MAROO, author of Western Lane Brilliant... expertly drawn family drama, loveable flawed characters and a very sweet dog... a perfect holiday read -- CLAIRE LYNCH, author of A Family Matter Hugely enjoyable... had me snorting with laughter on almost every page. Claire writes with such deft humour and insight into marriage and family -- HANNAH BECKERMAN, author of The Forgetting The setting is so vivid, the dialogue so zingy and these deliciously flawed, but totally believable, characters are so plausible, I absolutely devoured it -- JOSIE LLOYD, author of You & Me & You & Me & You & Me Irresistible, wry and absorbing, All In is both deeply fun and wildly compelling... A heartstopper of a novel -- FLYNN BERRY, author of Northern Spy Partners, parents, siblings, in-laws... Claire writes about family dynamics so believably. I looked forward to going to bed every night so I could read it and felt genuinely disappointed to get to the end -- ROXY DUNN, author of As Young As This