AVAILABLE SOON: AUSTRALIAN
FUGUE: THE ANTIPODE ROOM by Ruth Skilbeck
What is the significance of the young woman playing a violin, a
vision and sound that haunt Ruby? When Ruby and Hugo fly to Australia to
collect art and artists for her art gallery, she meets her forgotten lost love,
and her previous identity. The consequences lead to a crime that she cannot
recall as she writes in jail in Newcastle, NSW where the story begins.
Ruth Skilbeck’s first novel is a fugue mystery. A crime of
mistaken and confused identities told by four very different characters whose
voices interweave as their stories intersect from London highlife to Coober
Pedy near Australia’s Simpson Desert. The narrative is situated in the
contemporary artworld and explores themes of desire and loss of awareness of
identity.
The narrative style is polyphonic, told in voices of four
disconnected lovers, and critical text excerpts weaving an innovative fugal style.
Ruth Skilbeck believes fiction reaches back in time to essential truth and this
novel is about making art from false and true convictions.
In the end, standing for the
truth –and asserting her own perspective, is rewarded and Ruby, a London art
gallery director, is freed from the false accusations and conviction that
imprisoned her in Newcastle, NSW and for which she will be compensated as the
truth, and the travesty of her wrongful conviction becomes known and those who
have branded and slandered her will be brought to justice and account.
Published by POSTMISTRESS PRESS
The novel will be on sale
soon*, and information will be posted here.
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