All Her Lives
9 October 2025
Launch Unity Books, Wellington. All welcome.
Available for pre-order now from Te Herenga Waka University Press.
Coming to Australia with UQP in early 2026.
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.
Where We Swim
Part memoir, part travel and nature writing, Ingrid’s latest book is about being a daughter, sister, partner, mother, and above all a human being living among other animals on this watery planet we share. It came out with Te Herenga Waka Press (formally Victoria University Press) and UQP in 2021.
‘This is a book for our times: to be read immediately, and again and again’ - Laura-Jean McKay, author of The Animals in this Country
‘I loved it.’ - Catherine Woulfe, The Spinoff
‘Energising, informative and often darkly funny… A gentle joy to read.’ - Readings Books, Melbourne
‘luminous…. a work of wondrous depth’ - Australian Book Review
‘exquisitely written’ - The Australian