Monday, May 02, 2016

The Sound

Sarah Drummond
Fremantle Press
NZ$35.00

Wiremu Heke of Aramoana joins a sealing boat on a voyage from Tasmania to Western Australia. He is on a quest to avenge the destruction of his village but soon finds himself a part of the violent and lawless world that has claimed the lives of those he’s known. It’s a world inhabited by men from many nations. Men who plunder seal colonies and steal women and children from the indigenous communities who live on the islands and shorelines of Australia’s south.

About the author:
Sarah Drummond has completed a PhD in history from Murdoch University. She has had essays and short fiction published in Purple Prose, Shadow Plays: an anthology of speculative fiction, Short Stories Australia, indigo journal, The Best Australian Essays 2010, LINQ Journal, Kurungabaa Journal and Overland. She lives on the south coast of Western Australia. 
The Sound is her debut novel. She first got the idea to write this book wile attending Otago University.

Awards

Dobbie Literary Award (Longlisted 2014)
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (Shortlisted 

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