- Title:
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A Language of Limbs (MP3)
- Written by:
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Dylin Hardcastle
- Read by:
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Stevie McKeon
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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0
- Duration:
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7 hours 13 minutes
- MP3 size:
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- Published:
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July 28 2024
- Available Date:
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July 28 2024
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038679024
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan Australia
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Price
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Award winning author
Australian author
Winner Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award 2023
A Language of Limbs follows the story of two women – one openly queer, the other desperately suppressing her desires – unknowingly reaching for each other over three heart-breaking yet euphoric decades before they finally collide.
On a quiet night in 1972, two teenage girls each make a choice. One girl is caught kissing her best friend (also a girl) in her garden shed and is kicked out of home by her father. The other girl wakes from a sex dream she's had about her best friend (also a girl) who is sleeping over and decides to swallow it and all her messy feelings.
Over the following three decades, these two unnamed women almost intersect in pivotal moments, the physical distance between them at times drawing so thin that their bodies almost collide. One woman is living an openly queer life; one is trying desperately not to. Against the backdrop of milestones including Australia's first Mardi Gras and the AIDS pandemic, we see grief and joy live side by side until these characters finally come together.
A Language of Limbs is about love and how it's policed, friendship and how it transcends, and hilarity in the face of heartbreak – the jokes you tell as you're dying and the ways laughing at a funeral softens the edges of our grief.
'Lyrical, profound, and deeply moving ...' (on Below Deck)
Brooke Davis, award-winning author of Lost & Found
'Hardcastle has captured the powerful words so many of us struggle to find ...' (on Below Deck)
Bri Lee, author of The Work
'Hardcastle is a phenomenal, courageous talent.' (on Below Deck)
Clementine Ford, bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys