Skins
Skins Allen & Unwin, $21pb, 226pp
Poetry
Skins by Sarah Hay
by Stephanie Green •
Set beyond the pale of white settlement, Sarah Hay’s Skins is a compelling and often violent story of an Englishwoman shipwrecked off the southern coast of Western Australia in 1835. Winner of the 2002 Australian/Vogel Literary Award, it is a powerful evocation of a time and place rarely featured in Australian literary fiction.
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