When writer, editor and self-confessed bibliophile Heather Reyes was diagnosed with cancer, she decided to turn the months of chemotherapy lying ahead into a positive by allowing herself absolute latitude with regards to her reading ("If you can't go out into the world, bring the world to you"), revisiting old favourites, catching up on books she had always intended to read, putting others aside when they fail to engage or prove too exhausting – losing herself in books not, as she points out, as an escape from life, but as an escape into life. What follows is an engaging and unaffected account of Reyes' reading history, encompassing the wider issues of why we read, the serendipity influencing what we read, and the benefits good reading can have on a life. Far from being a "misery memoir", then, An Everywhere is an extended love letter to the joys of reading and a celebration of the book as a physical object. An illuminating and often moving guide to an individual's relationship with the written word.