Queer Book Club Vienna|A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle

Join Queer Book Club Vienna this November!

Our November pick for Queer Book Club Vienna is A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle—a tender and searching debut novel about grief, desire, and the ways queer love reshapes us. Join us at Villa Vida Café for another afternoon of queer reading, warm drinks, and meaningful conversation.

Whether you’ve read every word or just a few pages, everyone is welcome to join the discussion. This is a relaxed, low-pressure environment to share thoughts, listen, and connect over queer literature.

About the Book: A Language of Limbs

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It’s the kind of power that could implode a family, a friendship, a life. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, 1972, a choice must be to act upon these desires, or suppress them? To live an openly queer life, or to try desperately not to?

Over the following three decades, these two lives almost intersect in pivotal moments, the distance between them at times drawing so thin they nearly collide. Against the backdrop of an era including Australia’s first Mardi Gras and the AIDS pandemic, we see these two lives ebb and flow, with joy and grief and loss and desire, until at last they come together in the most beautiful and surprising of fashions.

A Language of Limbs is about love and how it’s policed, friendship and how it transcends, and hilarity in the face of heartbreak – the jokes you tell as you’re dying and the ways laughing at a funeral softens the edges of our grief. An unashamed celebration of queer life in all its vibrancy and colour, this story finds the humanity in all of us, and demands we claim our futures for ourselves.

How It Works

• No need to finish the book to attend.
• Free to join, no RSVP needed.
• Books available at o*books

Why You Should Come

• Connect with fellow queer book lovers
• Explore queer stories in a friendly café setting
• Share ideas or just listen — no pressure to speak
• Build community through literature

Internal Links

📌 See all upcoming events at Villa Vida
📌 Order the book from o*books Wien