Limberlost

Robbie Arnott

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.

Limberlost is as close to flawless as any book I have read in years.'

- Jessie Greengrass, author of The High House

Robbie Arnott is the sort of young writer we all hoped would emerge in
Australia, a Conrad-like storyteller whose tales always tremble on the
edge of the mythic and legendary. And as well as being a splendid
narrator of tales, he has a quality too easily overlooked now. He writes
beautifully! May his readers and his rewards abound!'

- Thomas Keneally

‘Singing prose…This coming-of-age story confirms Robbie Arnott as a masterly writer of eco-fiction.’

- The Times UK

Preview

By the same author

Awards: Winner, Fiction, Age Book of the Year 2023

Release: Oct-2022

ISBN: 9781922458766

RRP (AUD): $32.99

Pages: 240

Format: Paperback & ebook

Category: Fiction

Robbie Arnott

Text Publishing

Text Publishing is an independent, Melbourne-based publisher of literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction. Text has been awarded the ABIA Small Publisher of the Year three times and won the Leading Edge Books Small Publisher of the Year in 2018 and 2019.