AustLit logo

AustLit

Sarah Hay Sarah Hay i(A63877 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1966 ;
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
1 8 y separately published work icon Texas : An Australian Love Story Sarah Hay , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1488279 2008 single work novel 'On a rundown station in the remote top end of Australia, life for Susannah is isolated and difficult. Susannah is left alone by her husband who is the manager of the station. She is forced to cope with their young twins, the hard physical work of running the homestead, and the frustration that these things now mark the boundaries of her life. Nothing is as she expected it to be; a dark history seeps through the land and the air shimmers with heat and an intangible menace. And then a young English girl, Laura, hired by her husband, arrives on the property to work as a jillaroo. Laura falls in love with Texas, the Aboriginal head stockman, naively believing that her love will pull him out of long-held destructive habits. And Susannah, preoccupied by her own struggles, watches from the sidelines.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Extract : Texas : An Australian Love Story Sarah Hay , 2005 extract novel (Texas : An Australian Love Story)
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 50 no. 2005; (p. 236-239)
1 Who was Dorothea Newell? Sarah Hay , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 75 2002; (p. 125-128) Hay discusses her research for and the writing of her novel Skins in which Dorothea Newell is the main character.
1 Extract from Skins Sarah Hay , 2002 extract novel (Skins)
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 75 2002; (p. 117-124)
1 Influences : Sarah Hay Sarah Hay , Frances Atkinson , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 October 2002; (p. 10) The West Australian , 28 December 2002; (p. 14)
1 19 y separately published work icon Skins Sarah Hay , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2002 Z912135 2002 single work novel historical fiction

'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.' (Synopsis)
1 The Day We Sailed Sarah Hay , 2001 extract novel historical fiction (Skins)
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 September 2001; (p. 13)
X