Publisher's Synopsis
I’d never previously lived in a place where so much energy was expended on keeping undesirable creatures out of one’s yard, one’s home, one’s heart.
Georgie’s marriage has stagnated. But in a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, there’s no room to attend to it: forests burn, termites abound, teeth break, and there’s something in her husband’s eye.
Then she finds a body in the woods.
As the repercussions of her discovery and a doomed affair come to land, Georgie is forced to confront her past, examining the often heartbreaking power of the things we witness and the scars they leave behind.
Arms & Legs is a searingly intimate exploration of motherhood, marriage and desire.
Chloe Lane’s writing continues to astound me . . . Lane is expert at taking us deep inside the body, heart and mind of Georgie, showing us her most intimate desires with exquisitely agonising clarity. Claire Fuller, author of The Memory of Animals
