Hide Description- Show Description+
All Her Lives follows women across generations as they resist, nurture and transform. These are lives shaped by love and politics, motherhood and memory, constraint and defiance.
From girls raised in the garden of Plunket founder Truby King, to a queer university student at a mid-2000s Berlin rave, to a mother facing the cost of her son’s climate rebellion, the women of All Her Lives are complex, resilient and deeply human. Shadowing their stories is the early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, whose journey of grief and revolution will become a vessel for what endures – and for finding hope.
Vast and intimate, All Her Lives explores the layered selfhood of women – all that they inherit, sacrifice, imagine and carry forward – and the power found in unravelling and reweaving those selves on their own terms.
‘A wonderful collection that swims in and out of women’s lives across time, exploring the struggle for freedom and love. I’ll be thinking about it for a long time – a book of quiet force.’ —Emily Perkins, author of Lioness
Praise for Where We Swim
'luminous . . . a work of wondrous depth’
— Australian Book Review
‘This is a book for our times: to be read immediately, and again and again, as Horrocks helps us to come to terms with the new now.’ —Laura Jean McKay, author of The Animals in that Country
‘Where We Swim captures the sense of uncertainty any swimmer feels when they step into unknown waters, and Ingrid Horrocks’ words carry us on a powerful current – sometimes gentle, sometimes urgent – of concern for our planet and joy at its beauty.’ —Sophie Cunningham, author of City of Trees
Ingrid Horrocks’s books include the memoir Where We Swim (2021), a literary history, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility (2017), and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in Lithub, The Ninth Letter, The Sydney Review of Books, The Spinoff, Landfall, and the Guardian. In 2024 she was the Kaituhi Tarāwhare CNZ Writer in Residence at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, and in 2025 she was awarded the Michael King Writers Centre Australian Residency at Varuna. Ingrid lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, with her partner and twin daughters. This is her first work of fiction.
Cover: Sarah Wilkins
