All the Love I Can Carry

Once an abandoned puppy, Chiko found his home with Teo and Daniel. He learned their footsteps, their sleeping noises and the way their hands met above his head. To him, they were Papa and Baba. Being loved meant having both of them within reach.Now he is eleven, and his people are arguing about custody.There are two leads, two homes and a growing list of things nobody knows how to say. Grief has entered their marriage, and the men who once comforted each other have begun to mistake hurt for indifference. Chiko can still smell each of them on the other's clothes. He cannot understand why they seem determined to become strangers.Moving between Melbourne's familiar streets, creek paths and quiet apartments, Chiko carries what he can: a slipper, a battered toy fox, the small reminders of a life his people built together. He wants them to remember how it felt to stay.But his walks are getting shorter. His favourite things are becoming heavier. And loving them both may no longer be enough to cross the distance between them.Teo and Daniel will have to take the remaining steps themselves.Told through the observant, gently humorous voice of a rescue dog, All the Love I Can Carry is a lyrical, bittersweet story of queer love, shared grief and a family learning how to hold one another again. A novel for anyone who has loved an animal—and discovered how much love a small body can carry.