She dreamed of London. She found the Wilders. And nothing would ever be the same.

Anna grew up on food stamps and fantasy novels, falling in love with a London built of library books and Austen ballroom scenes. But the real London she finds after college is nothing like the one she imaginedjust a damp flat, a low-paying job, and the same gnawing hunger for something more.

Then she meets the Wilders: glamorous, wealthy, and effortlessly self-assured. Hired as a tutor for their teenage daughter, Anna is swept into a dazzling world of Saint-Tropez yachts, champagne-soaked nights, and the intoxicating charm of two very different menone promising escape, the other reflecting everything shes trying to hide.

But in a world where every glittering surface conceals a cost, Anna must decide: how far is she willing to go to reinvent herself? And can she do it without erasing who she really is?

Lush, sharp, and quietly devastating, All That Life Can Afford is a modern coming-of-age novel about class, identity, and the seductive power of reinvention.