Cafe Life in the Antipodes (also titled Sayonara Baby) is a fictional memoir of Roxanne Bergson’s life and experiences with one of Adelaide’s notorious Art Scandals, a neo-Dada activist group of artists, when she moved to a city in the grip of serial killers.

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 me by church institutions.

Cover photograph and design ‘Eternity’ by Ruth Skilbeck. Also published with the title Sayonara Baby in the Australian Fugue Series by Ruth Skilbeck.

Published in 2018. Reprinted with amendments.

ISBN: 9780648299868 - paperback.

Also published in hardcover by Borderstream Books. For information please email: Ruth.Skilbeck@borderstreambooks.com.au

This book is also published with the title Sayonara Baby in the Australian Fugue Series by Ruth Skilbeck.