A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of
This Mortal Boy. Two mothers fight over who will wear a hat on their children's wedding day. A
needle is lost somewhere inside a woman's body. A writer waits with a suitcase for a man who
never comes. This collection brings together Fiona Kidman's finest and most scandalous stories
vividly depicting the joys of female desire and the pain of heartbreak the thrill of illicit
liaisons and the twists and turns of unconventional love. Sometimes joyful often devastating
and always beautiful All the Way to Summer is a searing account of love and loss from a
pioneering feminist icon. 'Tales of loss and betrayal and twisted love abound in this perfect
collection' Liz Nugent author of Strange Sally Diamond
