All the Way to Summer by Fiona Kidman – UK book publication

All the Way to Summer by New Zealand author Fiona Kidman will be published in the UK on 8 February 2024.

A book to treasure from one of our literary greats, this is a powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy.

Fiona Kidman’s early stories about New Zealand women’s experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love. Her writing made her a feminist icon in the early 1980s, and she has since continued to tell the realities of women’s lives, her books resonating with many readers over the years and across the world.

To mark her 80th birthday, this volume brings together a variety of her previously published stories as well as several that are new or previously uncollected; all moving, insightful and written with love. The final stories trace her own history of love, a memoir of significant people from childhood and beyond.