Beatrice Hitchman on All Of You Every Single One: A Novel: Fiction

Beatrice Hitchman is an author and an academic whose research focuses on queer fiction and the ethics of historical fiction. Her first novel, Petite Mort, was adapted into a 10-part Woman’s Hour drama starring Honor Blackman. All Of You Every Single One: A Novel (The Overlook Press) is set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946. Julia Lindqvist is unhappily married to a famous Swedish playwright and leaves her husband to begin a passionate affair with a female tailor named Eve. The pair runs away and settles in the more liberal haven of Vienna, where they navigate the challenges of their newfound independence and find community in the city’s Jewish quarter. But Julia’s yearning for a child throws their fragile happiness into chaos. Elsewhere in the city, Ada Bauer’s wealthy industrialist family sends her to Dr. Sigmund Freud to cure her mutism – discreetly and without scandal. But help will come from an unexpected place, changing many lives irrevocably. Through the lives of its queer characters in one of the greatest cities of the age, All Of You explores living through oppression, how personal decisions become political, and how far one will go to protect the ones they love.

Sophie Ward is an English actor, writer, and the author of A Marriage Proposal: The Importance of Equal Marriage and What it Means for All of Us, published as a Guardian short eBook. She has published articles in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Spectator, Diva, and Red magazine. Her short stories have been included in the anthologies Finding a Voice, Book of Numbers, The Spiral Path, and The Gold Room. She has a degree in philosophy and literature and a Ph.D. from Goldsmiths, University of London.