Katherine Brabon
Katherine Brabon reviews 'Salt and Skin' by Eliza Henry-Jones
Katherine Brabon
Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Salt and Skin is the fifth novel by Victorian-based writer Eliza Henry-Jones. Following the death of her husband, Luda moves with her two teenage children, Darcy and Min, from Australia to the remote Scottish islands. Luda, a photographer, is employed by the local council to document the effects of climate change on the islands and to raise funds for related activism. They will live on Seannay, a small tidal island off the main Big Island, in the isolated and ramshackle ‘ghost house’ that bears centuries-old markings on the ceilings, ‘witch marks’ thought to ward off evil.
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Published in
October 2022, no. 447
I have two eyes and almost two noses / The lips of one face curve to meet my second / Neither of them look straight ahead.
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Published in
May 2022, no. 442