{"product_id":"all-her-lives","title":"All Her Lives","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nzbookawards.nz\/new-zealand-book-awards\/2026-awards\/winners\/\" title=\"Click here for more information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ewww.nzbookawards.nz 2026 Winner\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, judges citation;\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Poet, memoirist and scholar Ingrid Horrocks turns to fiction and crushes it. \u003cbr\u003eAcross nine elegant, probing stories that range from the late eighteenth \u003cbr\u003ecentury to the unsettled present, from rural Wairarapa to icy Norwegian \u003cbr\u003eports and rave culture Berlin, All Her Lives explores the shifting expectations \u003cbr\u003eand constraints of womanhood. Characters confront leaky rentals and sexual \u003cbr\u003eassault, join anti-nuclear and climate movements, while seeking many forms \u003cbr\u003eof love. Sparks from one story and one generation ignite elsewhere in the \u003cbr\u003ebook, illustrating how material conditions, freedoms and ideologies can be \u003cbr\u003eshaped, for better or worse, by our forebears. Emotionally intelligent and \u003cbr\u003ehistorically alert, this book is an outrageously good addition to the top shelf \u003cbr\u003eof New Zealand fiction.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVast 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. It is Ingrid Horrocks's first work of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'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.'\u003cbr\u003e-Emily Perkins, author of Lioness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents: Evie on Branch 11\u003cbr\u003eMarvellous Instruments 34\u003cbr\u003eThe Usual Spiel 79\u003cbr\u003eConcrete Box 98\u003cbr\u003eThe Silver Ship 116\u003cbr\u003eThe End of the Fair 151\u003cbr\u003eWomen's Choice Night 185\u003cbr\u003eMurmuration 209\u003cbr\u003eThe Silver Ship II 252\u003cbr\u003eNotes 265\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements 271\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIngrid 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 the International Institute of Modern Letters 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 272 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 210mm W: 138mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46359465918614,"sku":"9781776923007","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/files\/jacket-2026-04-24T083730-708.jpg?v=1776976787","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/all-her-lives","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}