In her second book, wine journalist and winemaker Rachel Signer picks up where her first memoir left off—at the start of her marriage, right before getting pregnant.

When motherhood coincides not only with the pandemic, but with a terrible bushfire season —which forces Rachel and her new baby to evacuate three days after birth—post-partum depression and anxiety set in, and it puts her young marriage on the rocks.

ALL WAS ALIVE follows Rachel as she tests the fissures in her marriage through meeting a new man while on a wine tour in Italy. Between Italy and Australia, we see her battling a chronic health condition, approaching divorce, and pursuing Italian citizenship based on a great-grandfather’s birthline.

The challenge is to find and hold onto self-love, even with the pressures of motherhood in isolation, a troubled marriage, and an awakened love for her distant, ancestral home.

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