So Far, For Now
March 2022
RHNZ Vintage
More of my life stories, a catch-up since the last memoir, published about ten years ago. These have been busy years, marked by the writing of more books, the birth of family, widowhood, political involvement, travel, leading writing workshops, grief and joy in near equal measure. These 18 essays traverse the territory, the best I can tell you about what happened next.
….threaded through So far, for now is a theme that makes Kidman incredibly likeable: the art of rediscovering oneself, or discovering for oneself. Kidman is a traveller, an investigator, of not just others’ lives, but her own. – Kelly Dennett Stuff
Kidman emerges life-size from her words: spirited, adventurous, loud and constant in her demands for justice, quietly determined in her quest for truth, honest in her admission of vulnerability and of pain. The prose is similarly open, relaxed and familiar, almost colloquial in its tone and structure. Every essay is a lesson in fine storytelling. – Rachel O’Connor, Academy of New Zealand Literature