Book Launch | All Her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 am UTC+13:00

Unity Books Wellington, 57 Willis Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011 | Wellington

Te Herenga Waka University Press
Publisher/HostTe Herenga Waka University Press
Book Launch | All Her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks
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Join us to celebrate a new work from Ingrid Horrocks, and her first book of fiction! The book will be launched by Emily Perkins.
🌿 Thursday 9 October, 6pm
🌿 Unity Books Wellington
🌿 Free event – all welcome!
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
'All Her Lives is a reckoning. A stunning tour de force of women’s lives across centuries, continents and political movements. The collection reads as a protest song book, calling through the ages for change, revolution and peace. Horrocks is one of the most powerful storytellers of our time and All Her Lives is the author's most triumphant work.’ —Laura Jean McKay
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 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.
Cover: Sarah Wilkins
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