Into the Sea

by Jay Laurie

Overview

Into the Sea is the first novel from Australian writer, Jay Laurie. Vividly and simply told, it is about growing up behind the dunes, friendship, travelling into the unknown and living in rhythm with the sea.

Through the early years of a friendship between two boys, Into the Sea touches on first freedoms, the seesawing transition from innocence to adolescence and the impact of sudden loss. In later parts, the novel powerfully evokes life on the road and the unpredictability of trusting to chance travelling in remote places. Along the way, it richly and sensitively describes the landscapes of Australia and Indonesia and their people. The book also captures, with honesty and depth, what it is to ride waves, to be a surfer and, in a more subtle way, the trials, if not impossibilities, of loving one. www.intothesea-novel.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780646593487
Publisher:	Jay Laurie
Publication date:	12/19/2012
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	5.24(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Jay grew up in the 70s in a suburb of Sydney with a large tribe of siblings. The trips to the nearest beach on the weekend or up the coast to a rented fibro shack for Summer holidays were high points and the start of an enduring affinity with the sea.
After exploring further and further afield along the coasts of Australia during university days, his first overseas surfing trip, to Hawaii, Mexico and Africa, eventually came. From then the seed, that magic combination which is travel surfing, was forever sown. A little later, Jay and his girlfriend (now wife) and decided to move interstate for a while. After getting side tracked in the South Pacific for a year and a half crewing on yachts, hitching on cargo boats and exploring the islands between Tahiti and New Zealand and spending mostly terrific, but occasionally alarming, times in the elements, they finally ended up in Western Australia.
Since then he has continued to roam coastlines all over the place in and outside Australia, recording adventures in journals by hand. Jay currently lives near the sea in Western Australia with his wife, their two young children and their pup and gets into it whenever he can.