Australian Fugue: The Antipode Room
by Ruth Skilbeck
Ruth Skilbeck's first novel is a fugue mystery. A crime story of lost and confused identity and desire of four very different characters whose voices interweave as action unfolds from the London highlife to Coober Pedy in Australia's Simpson Desert area. The story is situated in the recent contemporary era of the turn of the 21st century and explores themes of the psychogenic fugue.
What is Ruby haunted by? What is the significance of the images and music of the young woman playing violin. Who she cannot forget or remember? In the eyes of London society, Countess Ruby Love has it all: a contemporary art gallery, house in Primrose Hill's Chalcot Square, a philosopher husband who adores her. What Ruby doesn't have is a Past. When she 'came around' on a London underground tube train she had forgotten who she was, her life, and had to slowly reinvent a new Self. when Ruby and Hugo journey to Australia to find new art for her gallery a surprise meeting with her forgotten love at the opening of an exhibition at a Sydney gallery brings the past back. The future that unfolds is more than Ruby could have imagined as the Unfinished Fugue of Margarita's violin comes uncannily back to life, leading to the chilling climax of the story.
The narrative style is polyphonic told through the voices of four disconnected lovers Ruby, Hugo, Raymond and Margarita, literary texts and medical excerpts on fugue, weaving a non realist fugal style.
by Ruth Skilbeck
Ruth Skilbeck's first novel is a fugue mystery. A crime story of lost and confused identity and desire of four very different characters whose voices interweave as action unfolds from the London highlife to Coober Pedy in Australia's Simpson Desert area. The story is situated in the recent contemporary era of the turn of the 21st century and explores themes of the psychogenic fugue.
What is Ruby haunted by? What is the significance of the images and music of the young woman playing violin. Who she cannot forget or remember? In the eyes of London society, Countess Ruby Love has it all: a contemporary art gallery, house in Primrose Hill's Chalcot Square, a philosopher husband who adores her. What Ruby doesn't have is a Past. When she 'came around' on a London underground tube train she had forgotten who she was, her life, and had to slowly reinvent a new Self. when Ruby and Hugo journey to Australia to find new art for her gallery a surprise meeting with her forgotten love at the opening of an exhibition at a Sydney gallery brings the past back. The future that unfolds is more than Ruby could have imagined as the Unfinished Fugue of Margarita's violin comes uncannily back to life, leading to the chilling climax of the story.
The narrative style is polyphonic told through the voices of four disconnected lovers Ruby, Hugo, Raymond and Margarita, literary texts and medical excerpts on fugue, weaving a non realist fugal style.
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