What We All Want

A brilliant, original, dark and funny novel about three grown-up siblings dealing with the death of their alcoholic mother, Becka.

Becka's daughter Hilary has nursed her through liver cancer; Hilary's brothers, Thomas and Billy, have been away for years, unable to cope with their mother.

But they come back to bury her. WHAT WE ALL WANT is a beautifully written, sometimes macabre, but always entertaining story of lives half lived, and of the possibility of change.

All three siblings have demons which they challenge with quiet inevitability after Becka's death.

These are big themes, but Berry's understatement, humour and originality make this a book of potentially enormous appeal. Uniquely comic with a tragic edge, WHAT WE ALL WANT renders an incisive yet tender portrait of the strangeness of families and the universal desire for acceptance.