All the Running
A novel of the sea, of running, and of what it costs to stop

Vietnam, 1968. Kel has made himself a promise — never to kill again — and that promise puts him on the wrong side of the draft. He disappears, leaving behind a father who can't find the words to make things right and a girlfriend, Georgie, unravelling without him. When searchers find his campsite in a coastal cave in Western Australia — gear intact, board gone — everyone assumes the ocean took him.

Meanwhile, a lone sailor's body washes ashore near a quiet coastal town, and a case slowly opens that no one connects to Kel — not yet.

On a remote Pacific island, months later, Kel stumbles across a scrap of old newspaper announcing the troops are finally being brought home. He doesn't know how close the investigation has crept. He only knows he's got a promise to keep and a father's silence to break — so he sets sail.

Set against Western Australia's wild, half-forgotten coastline and the open Pacific beyond it, All the Running is a story about the strange healing that comes from strangers, the many shapes love can take, and an ocean that gives as freely as it destroys.

Praised by acclaimed Australian authors as a beautifully researched, richly atmospheric work that sits alongside the best of Australian coastal fiction.

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