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Book Club - Robbie Arnott’s Limberlost

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Today I’ve brought in Robbie Arnott’s new novel, Limberlost.

Robbie Arnott is the author of Flames and The Rain Heron. His novels have won the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Award, Age book of the year and The SMH young novelist award, as well as being nominated for seemingly every other literary award this country has on offer.

Just a fun aside, as I prepped for this book club I couldn’t help but notice that Limberlost has already garnered a few award nominations. That’s because Robbie’s writing is somehow both ethereal and visceral; having the power to take the reader away whilst grounding us in the reality being drawn for us.

Limberlost is set across a long summer in Tasmania’s north. While war rages in Europe and the Pacific, life on Limberlost carries on, haunted by the echoes of young men gone to fight.

Ned is left at home with his father and sister Maggie, too young to fight, while his brothers enlist in the war. Ned is aware of their bravery and duty but struggles to reconcile himself to their absence and his own dislocation in the family hierarchy.

Ned busies himself hunting rabbits. To provide pelts to make slouch hats for the soldiers is his justification, but really Ned dreams of buying a boat and setting free on the open water.

On a fateful morning Ned checks his traps, only to find an injured Quoll caught in the steel jaws. The animal is a danger to the family’s chickens. Its pelt would fetch Ned a good price, but he is compelled to hide the stricken animal and care for it away from the gaze of his family.

Ned’s summer stretches out before him, an odyssey that will come to shape the rest of his life.

Arnott’s storytelling centers the teenage Ned and periodically flashes forward through Ned’s life showing the reader the ripples of Ned’s decisions and they shaped the man he would become.

Limberlost is ostensibly the most grounded of Arnott’s novels. It does not have the fantastical creatures and gilded mythologies of his previous books. In Limberlost the mystic is subsumed by a sense of connectedness that ties the natural world with the humans who too often fight against it.

Ned’s journey is one of coming to know his world and the place he occupies in it, whilst always finding himself at odds with its currents.

Robbie Arnott has a way of painting a simple picture that is almost painful in its beauty. Or perhaps the pain is our sympathy with Ned who feels destined to always be a shadow in the brighter light of the men of his family.

Ned’s search for identity is paralleled with his search for place and a sense of belonging. It’s a search that maps the mid and late twentieth century as Ned is blown about by forces of progress and history.

As I read Limberlost I found myself with a feeling familiar from my reading of Flames and The Rain Heron. I searched for Arnott’s purpose, his message. It seemed impossible to me that Ned’s journey couldn’t help but build to some extraordinary conclusion.

And perhaps it does. I wouldn't spoil it for you now would I?

More than any message though I was reminded as I read of how Robbie Arnott’s style and his choice of subject in the vagaries of our natural world can transfix me. I read until I was lost in the rhythms of the novel and found myself incredulous that I was mere pages from the novel’s end.

Limberlost is a wonderful new novel from Robbie Arnott, possibly his best yet.

Go check it out

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Today I’ve brought in Robbie Arnott’s new novel, Limberlost.

Robbie Arnott is the author of Flames and The Rain Heron. His novels have won the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Award, Age book of the year and The SMH young novelist award, as well as being nominated for seemingly every other literary award this country has on offer.

Just a fun aside, as I prepped for this book club I couldn’t help but notice that Limberlost has already garnered a few award nominations. That’s because Robbie’s writing is somehow both ethereal and visceral; having the power to take the reader away whilst grounding us in the reality being drawn for us.

Limberlost is set across a long summer in Tasmania’s north. While war rages in Europe and the Pacific, life on Limberlost carries on, haunted by the echoes of young men gone to fight.

Ned is left at home with his father and sister Maggie, too young to fight, while his brothers enlist in the war. Ned is aware of their bravery and duty but struggles to reconcile himself to their absence and his own dislocation in the family hierarchy.

Ned busies himself hunting rabbits. To provide pelts to make slouch hats for the soldiers is his justification, but really Ned dreams of buying a boat and setting free on the open water.

On a fateful morning Ned checks his traps, only to find an injured Quoll caught in the steel jaws. The animal is a danger to the family’s chickens. Its pelt would fetch Ned a good price, but he is compelled to hide the stricken animal and care for it away from the gaze of his family.

Ned’s summer stretches out before him, an odyssey that will come to shape the rest of his life.

Arnott’s storytelling centers the teenage Ned and periodically flashes forward through Ned’s life showing the reader the ripples of Ned’s decisions and they shaped the man he would become.

Limberlost is ostensibly the most grounded of Arnott’s novels. It does not have the fantastical creatures and gilded mythologies of his previous books. In Limberlost the mystic is subsumed by a sense of connectedness that ties the natural world with the humans who too often fight against it.

Ned’s journey is one of coming to know his world and the place he occupies in it, whilst always finding himself at odds with its currents.

Robbie Arnott has a way of painting a simple picture that is almost painful in its beauty. Or perhaps the pain is our sympathy with Ned who feels destined to always be a shadow in the brighter light of the men of his family.

Ned’s search for identity is paralleled with his search for place and a sense of belonging. It’s a search that maps the mid and late twentieth century as Ned is blown about by forces of progress and history.

As I read Limberlost I found myself with a feeling familiar from my reading of Flames and The Rain Heron. I searched for Arnott’s purpose, his message. It seemed impossible to me that Ned’s journey couldn’t help but build to some extraordinary conclusion.

And perhaps it does. I wouldn't spoil it for you now would I?

More than any message though I was reminded as I read of how Robbie Arnott’s style and his choice of subject in the vagaries of our natural world can transfix me. I read until I was lost in the rhythms of the novel and found myself incredulous that I was mere pages from the novel’s end.

Limberlost is a wonderful new novel from Robbie Arnott, possibly his best yet.

Go check it out

Loved this review?

You can get more books, writing and literary culture every week on the Final Draft Great Conversations podcast. Hear interviews with authors and discover your next favourite read!

Book Club is produced and presented by Andrew Pople

Want more great conversations with Australian authors?

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