Out now in North America (House of Anansi Press), the UK & Europe (Gallic Books), and New Zealand (Te Herenga Waka University Press)
‘Gripping in its exploration of trauma, desire and the knotty, day-by-day business of staying together’ —Daily Mail
‘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
‘This intense examination of a marriage with its rifts and sorrows had me spellbound. The images of fire give it an extraordinary brilliance, a moving subtle light casting brightness, shadows and a constant rising tension’ —Fiona Kidman, author of This Mortal Boy
'An astute, fine-grained novel about the fires we light to sustain ourselves – and what happens when they get out of control' —Emily Perkins, author of Lioness
‘Arms & Legs zig zags between comedy and despair as Georgie seeks to understand her life, her son, the wilderness outside and inside of her. This perceptive, nuanced novel charts the murky, contingent boundaries we draw around our homes and hearts’ —Kirsten McDougall, author of She’s a Killer
'Arms & Legs is a gritty, sexy novel that will have you aching for its characters, for the things they can and cannot say to each other. Lane’s taut control of the narrative echoes the story’s fecund, humid Florida landscape – controlled burn-offs, nature’s relentless assaults on besieged boundaries of civilised urban life – and her ability to sustain suspense lasts well beyond the final page' —Sue Orr, author of Loop Tracks
‘For all the brooding unease of the evocatively captured Southern US setting, it is the risk that we pose, sometimes unwittingly, to ourselves and those closest to us that lingers in this accomplished and absorbing novel’ —New Zealand Listener
‘Arms & Legs, more than anything, gives you the feeling of having witnessed something authentic, something palpable. Though it is fiction, there is an emotional resonance, an emotional truth, to Lane’s words’ —Academy of NZ Literature
‘Like her first novel, The Swimmers, Arms & Legs has a bright intelligence and intensity. Lane is a wonderfully attentive and insightful writer. It is also at times tartly funny with an eye not just for the quiet moments in life but also the absurd' —Kiran Dass, NZ Herald
‘Lane’s narrative is instantly compelling, as uncomfortable as it is intimate, making it impossible to look away as we witness a relationship floundering under the repercussions of an affair all while examining the best and worst of desire, resentment, parenthood and love’ —Kete Books
‘Lane’s previous novel, The Swimmers, was smaller in scope … yet there’s the same laser-fine focus in building scenes with incredible tension … One of her finest skills as a writer is never turning away from the more difficult or disgusting sides of human nature’ —Woman Magazine
‘With its puzzledness and tendency for narrative swerve Arms & Legs reads a bit like Murakami. I was thankful for Lane’s thoughtfulness and sense of quiet, particularly at the novel’s surprising ending’ —Annaleese Jochems, Newsroom
‘Georgie’s distracted thoughts and the inconstancy of her desires are held together by her finely and sympathetically drawn portrait of the minutiae of early parenthood … and the neighbourhood itself’ —Landfall Review
‘The story is this fascinating, intimate, tightly controlled and utterly compelling look at how we navigate life when it throws us wildness’ —Ray Shipley, Nine To Noon, Radio New Zealand
[Cover arms & legs by David Cauchi, design by Rose Miller]