PublishedText Publishing, October 2022 |
ISBN9781922458766 |
FormatSoftcover, 240 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.3cm |
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat.
His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost.
Desperate to ignore it all-to avoid the future rushing towards him-Ned dreams of open water.
As his story unfolds over the following decades, we see how Ned's choices that summer come to shape the course of his life, the fate of his family and the future of the valley, with its seasons of death and rebirth.
The third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.
Sarah is the fiction buyer at Boffins and has a penchant for writing that is incisive and challenging, bonus points for complicated characters. Trained as a chef, Sarah enjoys all things food- be it a beautifully laid out cookbook, a crop of broad beans in her garden, or a holiday planned entirely around where to eat. When she’s not barracking for the Dockers or walking her dogs, she enjoys endlessly searching for Perth’s best coffee.
In Robbie's previous books, he has expertly blended mythology & the real world, but in Limberlost, Arnott focuses on the mythologies we tell ourselves, the ones that persist quietly in families for generations. So much more than a coming of age novel, this is a tender and beautiful love letter to nature, to Tasmania and to Robbie's own family.
Truly one of my faves this year!
