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All Her Lives
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.
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.
272 pages, Paperback
First published October 9, 2025
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About the author
Ingrid Horrocks
9 books5 followersI am a nonfiction writer, critic and poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. My latest book, Where We Swim, a blend of memoir, travel and nature writing, is published in New Zealand and Australian editions in 2021.
My previous books include the genre-bending Travelling with Augusta: 1835 and 1999, part memoir, part love story, part history of women’s travel. I’m pretty obsessed with what happens to people on the move and I’ve written a book on the history of women wanderers in fiction, poetry and travel books, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility. As part of this, I got to edit a new edition of pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s dazzling 1796 travel book. I’ve also published two poetry books, and co-edited a collection of personal essays, Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Awards for my writing include a Michael King Writers Residency and the Macmillan Brown Prize for Writers. I was a Commonwealth Scholar, did a PhD at Princeton University, and am now an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Massey University, Wellington. I am a member of the NonfictioNOW International Board, currently organising NonfictioNOW2021, to be held in Wellington in December 2021. I am especially interested in building Trans-Tasman literary connections and am a Consultant NZ-Aotearoa Editor to the Sydney Review of Books.
I live in Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington, near the south coast, with my partner and twin daughters. I’m a keen, if not a very good, swimmer.
My previous books include the genre-bending Travelling with Augusta: 1835 and 1999, part memoir, part love story, part history of women’s travel. I’m pretty obsessed with what happens to people on the move and I’ve written a book on the history of women wanderers in fiction, poetry and travel books, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility. As part of this, I got to edit a new edition of pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s dazzling 1796 travel book. I’ve also published two poetry books, and co-edited a collection of personal essays, Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Awards for my writing include a Michael King Writers Residency and the Macmillan Brown Prize for Writers. I was a Commonwealth Scholar, did a PhD at Princeton University, and am now an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Massey University, Wellington. I am a member of the NonfictioNOW International Board, currently organising NonfictioNOW2021, to be held in Wellington in December 2021. I am especially interested in building Trans-Tasman literary connections and am a Consultant NZ-Aotearoa Editor to the Sydney Review of Books.
I live in Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington, near the south coast, with my partner and twin daughters. I’m a keen, if not a very good, swimmer.
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January 3, 2026
Great! I love this in-between genre: long short stories but not quite novellas. I adored how the characters in each were somehow connected. Sometimes a little too on-the-nose/prescriptive abt climate stuff, which is a pet peeve of mine… In the end, the storytelling mellowed it all out enough for me to love it!
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