This novel is also published with the title Cafe Life in the Antipodes (2018)

Sayonara Baby, in the Australian Fugue series, is the 'fictional memoir' backstory of what really happened that Ruby forgot in the Missing novel.
1980. Adelaide is in the grip of serial killers targeting young people. Roxanne arrives to start university. She moves into a share house by the beach. This is a fictional novel set against a backdrop of real events, it narrates the backstory of the fugue mystery in The Antipode Room, and Missing, of the past which “Ruby” cannot remember.

Sayonara Baby is a fictionalized memoir of Roxanne Bergson’s life and experiences with one of Adelaide’s notorious Art Scandals, a neo-Dada actionist group of artists. She documents her relationship with Raymond and friends in stories, diary entries and letters, set in several places as they travel to various cities and the rainforest and her family’s shack in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains.

It is perhaps the first novel on the ways of life of young artists and writers in Australia in the 1980s context of the ‘hitchhiker murders,’ the ‘Family murders’ and the widespread concealed abuse of young men by church institutions.

This novel was previously available only as a standalone novel with the title Café Life in the Antipodes

Sayonara Baby. ISBN: 9780994540522

Date of publication: 2017. Order at Borderstream Books:

https://www.borderstreambooks.com.au

Cover photograph: Forest Floor, Sayonara Baby by Ruth Skilbeck, 2017

About the author:

Ruth Skilbeck has lived and worked as a writer, arts journalist, lecturer, and editor, in Ireland, England, and Australia respectively. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Writing from the University of Technology Sydney, and a B.A. Hons in Philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London. 

ISBN: 97809940522 (paperback)

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