Sally Blundell
Arms & Legs by Chloe Lane (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022), 208pp, $30
‘Just arms and legs. It’s not worth a damn.’ Halfway through Chloe Lane’s new novel, our narrator, Georgie, recalls these words used by a character in a short story by Mississippi writer, Barry Hannah, to describe the dismal sex of an old affair. Her husband Dan repeats these words, reciting the lines with a finality, Georgie says, ‘that made me think with a certainty I’d always had in a way, but here it was with literary emphasis, that Dan would never cheat on me’. That certainty is not reciprocated. [Read more…]