All In
Pack this witty, tender Vogue Best Beach Read 2026 for your summer holiday this year
Published on 4. June 2026
320 pages
978-1-5299-5713-6 (ISBN)
Description
'Intensely funny... profoundly touching' INDIA KNIGHT, SUNDAY TIMES
'I laughed, I cried, I couldn't pull my eyes away' VOGUE BEST BEACH READS 2026
'Captures all the awkwardness of family dynamics and marriage with such compassion and authenticity' JENNIE GODFREY
A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Most Anticipated Read 2026
A marriage on the rocks. A family in disarray. A weekend in the sun at a luxury, all-inclusive hotel. What could possibly go wrong?
Jo and Dave haven't had a holiday in years. They've had other things on their plate: failed IVF, the death of Dave's mother, doing up the bathroom.
So when Dave's flashy brother Teddy offers to fly in from Dubai and take them - along with his gorgeous young girlfriend and their curmudgeonly father - to a beachfront resort in the Med, the couple can hardly refuse.
But while romance might be on the cards for some, Jo and Dave soon find that tensions don't disappear in paradise. In fact, they might just get worse...
Set over the course of one scorching weekend, All In is a compulsively entertaining and bittersweet novel that asks: when life gets choppy, how does love stay afloat?
'One for fans of The Wedding People and White Lotus' BOOKSELLER 1O TITLES NOT TO MISS
READERS ARE LOVING THIS YEAR'S FUNNIEST, MOST PERCEPTIVE SUMMER READ
'Tender, hilarious and wonderfully perceptive, this will be the summer read of the season'
'Oh I loved this book so much! The writing is so SO good - beautiful and poignant and funny - just brilliant. And the story is so relatable - the stress of travelling, group holidays, suitcases going missing, family dynamics... fabulous!'
'Smart, immersive and surprisingly moving - a standout contemporary read'
'An ideal holiday read... Beautifully written and hard to put down'
'A wonderful emotional snapshot'
'A brilliant book to take on holiday'
'I laughed, I cried, I couldn't pull my eyes away' VOGUE BEST BEACH READS 2026
'Captures all the awkwardness of family dynamics and marriage with such compassion and authenticity' JENNIE GODFREY
A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Most Anticipated Read 2026
A marriage on the rocks. A family in disarray. A weekend in the sun at a luxury, all-inclusive hotel. What could possibly go wrong?
Jo and Dave haven't had a holiday in years. They've had other things on their plate: failed IVF, the death of Dave's mother, doing up the bathroom.
So when Dave's flashy brother Teddy offers to fly in from Dubai and take them - along with his gorgeous young girlfriend and their curmudgeonly father - to a beachfront resort in the Med, the couple can hardly refuse.
But while romance might be on the cards for some, Jo and Dave soon find that tensions don't disappear in paradise. In fact, they might just get worse...
Set over the course of one scorching weekend, All In is a compulsively entertaining and bittersweet novel that asks: when life gets choppy, how does love stay afloat?
'One for fans of The Wedding People and White Lotus' BOOKSELLER 1O TITLES NOT TO MISS
READERS ARE LOVING THIS YEAR'S FUNNIEST, MOST PERCEPTIVE SUMMER READ
'Tender, hilarious and wonderfully perceptive, this will be the summer read of the season'
'Oh I loved this book so much! The writing is so SO good - beautiful and poignant and funny - just brilliant. And the story is so relatable - the stress of travelling, group holidays, suitcases going missing, family dynamics... fabulous!'
'Smart, immersive and surprisingly moving - a standout contemporary read'
'An ideal holiday read... Beautifully written and hard to put down'
'A wonderful emotional snapshot'
'A brilliant book to take on holiday'
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 SubmarineMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Edition type
New edition
File size
0,65 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-5713-6 (9781529957136)
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Claire Powell is the author of At The Table, which was named one of the best books of 2022 by The Times and Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Critic, Red Magazine and Good Housekeeping. A graduate of the University of East Anglia Creative Writing MA, she was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Bursary and the Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Prize. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and in 2017 she won the Harper's Bazaar short story contest. She lives with her family in south-east London.
