Now an embittered writer of celebrity bios who's adapting his memoir for the screen, he's become content in the role of the man-done-wrong-by. But the past is about to come back to bite: as he attempts to recover from a heart attack and the news of his daughter Sadie's suicide, her diaries arrive in the mail. Swept up in the tragic details of another ruined life, Willy reluctantly considers his family history and the notion that "only when you die do you run out of chances to be good".

With her scathing wit and keen ear for dialogue, Zoe Heller has created a darkly humorous story of love and loathing, sex and death, and filial relations gone horribly awry. Acidly funny and deeply affecting, Everything You Know marks the debut of a brilliant and immensely stylish young writer.