Emily Everett Book Talk

Williamsburg's Own - **Emily Everett** will give a book talk about her recently published debut novel, ***All That Life Can Afford***.

A young American woman navigates class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite. Sparkling with intelligence and insight, ***All That Life Can Afford*** peels back the glossy layers of class and privilege, exploring what it means to create a new life for yourself that still honors the one you’ve left behind.

**Emily Everett** is an editor and writer from western Massachusetts. Her short fiction appears in *The Kenyon Review*, *Electric Literature*, *Tin House*, and *Mississippi Review*. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Fiction. Everett grew up on a small family dairy farm, studied English and music at Smith College, and studied abroad for a year at University College London. After graduating, she returned to London to do an M.A. in literature at Queen Mary University of London. She lived and worked in the UK from 2009 to 2013. Everett has been managing editor of *The Common*, a literary magazine based at Amherst College, since 2016. At *The Common*, she edits fiction, manages print and online production, and hosts the magazine’s podcast.