It’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a fifteen-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of The Face magazine, and Julia Riberts wears thigh-boots on the poster for a new move called Pretty Woman.
Feburary Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. That one evening in May she finds an escaped canary in her kitchen and it sparks a glimmer of home in her. With the help of the bird called Yellow, Feb starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness, just as her aunt embarks on a passionate and all-consuming affair with a married American drama teacher.
This could be everything is a coming-of-age story rooted in a pre-Richard-Curtis-era Notting Hillthar has all but vanished. It’s about what happens when you start looking after something more important than you, and the hope a yellow bird can bring.
