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Limberlost [Book] Goodreads
author: Robbie Arnott Text Publishing 2022 - 10
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 allβ€”to avoid the future rushing towards himβ€”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.

finished reading Limberlost πŸŒ•πŸŒ•πŸŒ•πŸŒ—πŸŒ‘
by Robbie Arnott.

With his elder brothers away at war, a teenage boy attempts to fill the uncertain hole of their incommunicado absence by restoring a decrepit sailboat. In it he finds freedom and love for his surroundings. And there's a quoll and a crazy whale. A nice snapshot of mid-century northern Tasmania but I didn't really feel it.

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