A Language of Limbs
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- Paperback scheduled for publication on 27/03/2025
- Page count: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780857309075
Synopsis
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.
About the author
Dylin Hardcastle was born in 1993. They are a queer and transmasculine person of Welsh and Irish settler migrant descent living on stolen and unceded Gadigal Land. Dylin is an award-winning author, artist, screenwriter and former Provost’s Scholar at the University of Oxford. They are the author of Below Deck (2020), Breathing Under Water (2016) and Running Like China (2015). Their work has been published to critical acclaim in ten territories and translated into eight languages. They are the co-creator, co-writer and co-director of the series Cloudy River, which premiered at Mardi Gras Film Festival in 2020 and was later acquired by SBS On Demand. As an artist, they have travelled to Antarctica, South America and Europe for artist residencies. In 2019, Dylin worked as a research assistant in World Literature at the University of Oxford. Their novel A Language of Limbs was written as part of their PhD in Creative Writing at the University of New South Wales. In 2023, A Language of Limbs won the Kathleen Mitchell Award through the Australia Council for the Arts. The novel has been optioned by Curio (Sony Pictures) and is in development.
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