A Language of Limbs
by Dylin Hardcastle
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Pub Date 27 Mar 2025 | Archive Date 11 Dec 2024
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Description
This is a love story about the almost crossovers of our lives...
1972. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, Australia, two teenage girls must each make a choice: to act upon their desires or suppress them? To live an openly queer life or to try desperately not to?
Over the following three decades, these girls grow into women and live out their decisions, always almost crossing paths at pivotal moments. In an era that spans Australia's first Mardi Gras and the AIDS pandemic, there is joy and grief and loss and desire for each of them – but will their lives ever collide?
A Language of Limbs is about love and how it's policed, friendship and how it transcends, and hilarity in the face of heartbreak. A celebration of queer life in all its vibrancy and colour, this story finds the humanity in all of us and demands we claim our futures for ourselves.
Advance Praise
'Immersive and vividly descriptive... instances of queer joy in the novel, and moments of hardship are written with such grace. I will be thinking about this book for a long time' - Chloe Michelle Howarth, author of Sunburn
'A life-affirming, deeply-felt novel of the decisions we make and the lives that unspool from them. To read A Language of Limbs is to be reminded of the power of queer joy and community. I loved it' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rights
'Dylin Hardcastle's novel carried me away like a tidal current. Expansive across time, yet intimate in its focus, A Language of Limbs is that rare book that's equally poetic and propulsive - with twin protagonists who are impossible to shake. Nothing short of an instant queer classic' - Benjamin Law, author of The Family Law
'Poetic, fresh and mesmerising, Hardcastle's work is like nothing I have ever read. A Language of Limbs is full of feeling; a love story about the family we make ourselves. Upon finishing this book I was overwhelmed by a sense of, more. I am desperate for more stories like this' - Jessie Stephens, author of Something Bad is Going to Happen
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780857309075 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 272 |
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Featured Reviews
Vicki W, Reviewer
I don’t feel like anything I write will give this book justice, it’s so well written following the story of the female main character and how her life turns out of she had made choice a or choice b …..very kind of sliding doors but much better.
The Aids pandemic is recounted from a very poignant and heartbreaking POV and the description of the hostility of people towards people with this unknown killer disease is told with a visceral truth.
The way the stories - or limbs - come together at the end is so clever, I can’t recall reading anything similar, it really was a breath of fresh air and I feel honoured to have had the opportunity to read this ahead of its release next year.
Jimmie K, Reviewer
This book resonated with me on every level. I loved the writing style and the way the story unfolded through the perspectives of two different narrators.
There were so many moments when I was completely captivated by the prose. Dylin has a gift for words that creates vivid imagery on the page. The characters' emotions are expressed so powerfully that it truly tugs at your heartstrings. Reading it felt like an exhilarating emotional rollercoaster, picking up speed with each page.
Exploring one's queer identity is a challenging journey, and I can’t even begin to imagine how much more difficult it was during a pandemic.
I loved this novel so much.
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