Publisher's Synopsis
Jack Day is a pretty ordinary fifteen-year-old Melbourne boy. He's an average student, a competitive triathlete, and has plenty of friends without being especially popular. Jack is perfectly happy with life as it is, but that's all about to change when he meets Emily. Emily Radic is beautiful, intelligent, athletic, and lives by the beach in a nice house, so her life is pretty great, right? Except that it's not. As Jack and Emily begin dating, Jack quickly discovers that under the surface of Emily's seemingly extraordinary life are a number of issues including mental illness and family dysfunction. As the pair venture towards adulthood, Jack begins to find his place in the world, but struggles to help Emily overcome her issues, which only seem to worsen as she shuts herself off into her own darkness and away from the world that Jack yearns for her to explore with him. Perfect for fans of Jennifer Niven and Sally Rooney, All That We Were is based on a true story of love, loss and surviving as a young adult in the high-pressure twenty-first century.
