“In this novel, an aspiring writer navigates unstable relationships during the early days of the Australian punk scene in the early 1980s.

Skilbeck, the author of Australian Fugue: The Antipode Room (2015) organises the story of Roxanne “Roxy” Bergson around her romantic interactions with two men. Northern Irish Roxy, who was living in Japan, arrives for college in Adelaide with Samuel, her partner of four years – a man with whom, in her estimation , she was “supposed to have split up” weeks before….Roxy’s story is sure to inspire readers to recall their own youthful rebellions, and not just because of its accounts of wild antics but also because of its poeticism…

A sensitive and convincing account of Australian youth culture.” –Kirkus Reviews, Vol. XC, No. 1, 1 January 2022, p. 143. Review Posted Online: Nov. 11, 2021. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ruth-skilbeck/sayonara-baby/

(The above review is for the ebook-kindle edition published in 2021)

Title: Sayonara Baby: An Australian Fugue Novel

Author: Ruth Skilbeck

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780645842241

Publication date: 30 November 2023

Page count: 244

Includes one black and white photographic image and cover art by the author.

An earlier edition of Sayonara Baby by Ruth Skilbeck was first published in 2017 and is also published as a stand-alone novel with the title Cafe Life in the Antipodes by Ruth Skilbeck..

Cover image: Ruth Skilbeck, Nightfall (Lorikeets), 2020

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Sayonara Baby is the second novel in the Australian Fugue series.