A Language of Limbs
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
821704635Y
ISBN-13
9798217046355
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint
Dutton
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 3rd, 2025
Weight
322 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.70 x 2.30 cms
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Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction
One of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
“[A] gay, literary Sliding Doors.”
—Autostraddle
“Heartbreaking and not to be forgotten.”
—USA Today, “Best Books of the Year”
A breathtaking, will-they-won’t-they love story and a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community and how joy is found in even the darkest corners.
Newcastle, Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: To give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or stay the course? In alternating chapters, we trace the two versions of a life that follow.
In one, a teenage girl is caught kissing her neighbor and is kicked out from her home. She lands at a queer communal home in Sydney called Uranian House, where she meets the people who will forever become her family. Meanwhile, in the second, a teenage girl pushes down her lustful dreams of her best friend and eventually makes her way to a university in Sydney to study English literature.
During pivotal moments, the physical space between these two women closes—like when they each meet the first great loves of their lives in 1977 at a protest, or when, almost a decade later, they are both rushed to the hospital with only a curtain between them. Through the AIDS crisis—and from classrooms to art galleries, beds to bars and hospitals to homes—we witness these two lives shadow each other until, finally and poignantly, they collide.
One of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
“[A] gay, literary Sliding Doors.”
—Autostraddle
“Heartbreaking and not to be forgotten.”
—USA Today, “Best Books of the Year”
A breathtaking, will-they-won’t-they love story and a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community and how joy is found in even the darkest corners.
Newcastle, Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: To give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or stay the course? In alternating chapters, we trace the two versions of a life that follow.
In one, a teenage girl is caught kissing her neighbor and is kicked out from her home. She lands at a queer communal home in Sydney called Uranian House, where she meets the people who will forever become her family. Meanwhile, in the second, a teenage girl pushes down her lustful dreams of her best friend and eventually makes her way to a university in Sydney to study English literature.
During pivotal moments, the physical space between these two women closes—like when they each meet the first great loves of their lives in 1977 at a protest, or when, almost a decade later, they are both rushed to the hospital with only a curtain between them. Through the AIDS crisis—and from classrooms to art galleries, beds to bars and hospitals to homes—we witness these two lives shadow each other until, finally and poignantly, they collide.
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