Sea salt swirls from every page of Sarah Drummond’s first novel, The Sound, based on the remarkable true story of the Aboriginal women and children plundered by sealing crews sailing from Van Diemen’s Land to Western Australia in the 1820s.
This event has been updated since the BWF Program went to print. Please note, the revised start time of this session is 11.30am.
Megan McGrath is an award-winning fiction writer from North Stradbroke Island. She writes coastal tales, shaped by small towns, violence and the sea.
Sarah Drummond is the author of Salt Story: Of Sea-dogs and Fisherwomen, a memoir and social history of commercial estuarine fishers. She has had essays and short fiction published in various journals and anthologies, including Purple Prose, The Best Australian Essays 2010 and Overland. Sarah brings her own knowledge of fishing the waters of the Great Southern Ocean, and her love of the region’s rich history, to her fiction writing. The Sound, based on historical fact, is her first novel.
