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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar Recommends Ingrid Horrocks’s Women-Led Stories
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar praises Ingrid Horrocks’s women-led stories in All Her Lives: Nine Stories for their universal themes and intricate connections across timelines.
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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar praises Ingrid Horrocks’s women-led stories in All Her Lives: Nine Stories for their universal themes and intricate connections across timelines. Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar recommends Ingrid Horrocks’s women-led stories in All Her Lives: Nine Stories for their universal themes and intricate…
All Her Lives: Nine Stories
Ingrid Horrocks makes her debut as a prose fiction author with All Her Lives: Nine Stories.
New Zealand Settings
The stories are set in New Zealand, with four European stories and one partly US story.
Women as Protagonists
Women lead the stories and face challenges while showing vulnerabilities to close relationships.
Evie on Branch (1919)
Evie, a nurse who returned from World War I, lives with her brother and his family in a New Zealand valley.
Marvellous Instruments (1955)
Mae, Evie’s sister-in-law, runs a farm in New Zealand and connects with the Plunket Society.
The Usual Spiel (1995)
A schoolteacher worries about her community’s response to a crisis involving a female classmate.
Concrete Box (2017)
A single mother struggles with rent, a dog, a fever, and an infant while feeling isolated.
The Silver Ship (1795)
Mary Wollstonecraft travels to Scandinavia seeking silver for her lover, Gilbert Imlay.
The End of the Fair (1981)
Activists protest American nuclear ships docking in Devonport, New Zealand.
Women’s Choice Night (2005)
Ben moves from New Zealand to Berlin, working in a tech firm while his girlfriend explores her sexuality.
Murmurations (Now)
Madeline, a climate activist, meets her son Daniel in London after traveling to support his activism.
The Silver Ship II
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley discuss rowing a boat ten days after Wollstonecraft’s death.
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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar recommends Ingrid Horrocks’s women-led stories in All Her Lives: Nine Stories for their universal themes and intricate connections across timelines.