Skins

Name: Skins
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781865088075
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By Sarah Hay

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Skins by Sarah Hay is a captivating novel set against a vividly described backdrop. It delves into the complexities of life and human relationships, exploring themes of identity, transformation, and personal discovery. The narrative intertwines the struggles and triumphs of the characters, offering an engaging examination of how they navigate their worlds.
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Skins

Winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for 2001. A compelling, wild novel based on the true story of a young English woman who survives a shipwreck off the coast of Western Australia in 1835.

Shortlisted: 2003 The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - Fiction.

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WINNER, Australian/Vogel's Literary Award

WINNER, Best Young Australian Novelist Sydney Morning Herald

SHORTLISTED, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

'She had been left behind on an island with sealers, men who had their own rules. She felt as though she was on the edge of the world, or perhaps she had fallen off into some halfway place. It wasn't living and it wasn't quite hell.'

Shipwrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1835, Dorothea Newell is marooned on Middle Island with other survivors. Stranded, they seek shelter in a sealers' camp. The desolate environment of the island camp is a place where men from all corners of the globe struggle to trade seal skins, and the appearance of women—rare commodities in that place and time—opens a further form of trade. As a desperate means of survival, Dorothea is forced into an alliance with the camp's fierce leader, John Anderson.

Skins is the compelling story of Dorothea's emotional and physical journey back to civilisation. Featuring an immense, wild landscape of ocean and islands untainted by human existence, Sarah Hay writes a remarkable tale of people who have fallen through the gaps of recorded history.

'Truly very compelling. It really has extraordinary power. Dorothea's story is quite unforgettable.' - Gillian Mears

'An extremely accomplished, absorbing narrative that wears its historical knowledge lightly. The style is skilful, unobtrusive, the characterisation excellent, the themes intriguing. Very impressive.' - Debra Adelaide

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781865088075

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2002

Country: Australia

Imprint: Allen & Unwin

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 268g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Sarah Hay began writing as a livestock journalist for the Western Farmer and Grazier. Prior to that she had worked as a jillaroo on a cattle station in the Kimberleys as well as with shearing teams as a shedhand and farmhand. She is also qualified as an Enrolled Nurse. In 1989 Sarah went to London and after freelancing for a few months joined the national newspaper Today as a diary reporter. On her return to Perth in 1993 she entered public relations. Five years later she left her job with The Rowland Company to begin an Arts degree part-time at the University of Western Australia. She is now in her second year of studies as she took a year off to complete her novel. Sarah grew up east of Esperance on a station not far from the coast but now lives in Perth with her nine-year-old son Robert.