An interlinked collection of fiction celebrating women's lives and their search for love and freedom What if the choices of women centuries apart could echo across time? A sister haunted by her return from war. A young woman discovering her identity at a Berlin rave in the mid-2000s. A mother whose son's climate activism threatens everything she's built. At the heart of these fictional stories is Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical 18th-century feminist whose own struggles with love, loss and revolution illuminate the threads that connect all their lives. From quiet moments of caregiving and curiosity to acts of bold rebellion, the women in this striking story collection navigate the eternal tensions between duty and desire, safety and freedom, the past they've inherited and the future they're determined to create. All Her Lives brings together extraordinary women fighting to define themselves on their own terms.

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ISBN13: 9780702271106
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 272
Edition:
Publication Date: 31 Mar 2026
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Publication City, Country: St Lucia, Australia
Dimensions (cm): 22.6(H)x15.3(L)x2(W)328
Weight (gm): 328

Author Biography

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 Tarawhare CNZ Writer in Residence at Te Herenga Waka ‚àí 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.

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