Jay’s novels are available at various stockists in Western Australia, interstate and overseas including longstanding locals listed below.
Longstanding Local Stockists:
The General Store at Rottnest Island
Hollow Surf at North Beach, Hillarys and Secret Harbour
The Margaret River Bookstore
Gracies Store at Gracetown
Mukau in Cowaramup
The Prevelly General Store
At a glance
A novel about falling off the rails and the restorative powers of the friendship of strangers, love in its many forms and the ocean - its rolling energy and abundant depths, the sanctity of its less travelled shorelines, the peace of its surface in light winds and its capacity to indiscriminately destroy.
“There was no other sound, even the waves on the outer reefs and the wind held their breath as the orchestra of voices swirled and swayed up into the blackness. There was nothing else. None of the madness, the crazed mental fragmentation from all the solitude, all the running and everything that had led to it… only the simple purity of that endless song and he felt himself rising with it and then he was looking down on the black heads and dark skin of the shoulders of the ring of men, searching for himself singing quietly amongst them.”
Blurb
Having sworn not to kill again, Kel goes on the run from the Vietnam war call up, leaving behind a relationship with a girl who’s spiralling out of control and a penitent father. When his gear is found in a cave by the ocean in Western Australia, surfboard missing, he’s presumed dead…
Far away, the body of an old yachtie sailing solo to Moorea washes up on a beach near a small town and a lengthy investigation begins.
In time, in a village on a remote Pacific island with idyllic surf, Kel reads by chance an old kava-stained newspaper article announcing that the government is bringing home the troops. Unaware that the investigators are closing in, he hoists the sails; he’s got a promise to keep to Georgie and some questions his father’s never answered.
Reviews
“A lyrical exploration of the elusive notion that the coast might hide us from cruel realities. Beautifully realised, grounded in history and told with an expert eye for the ocean.” Jock Serong
“A tidal surge of a novel - true, tough and tender.” Robert Drewe
…more to come…