Happy to say that the new second novel, All the Running, is finally done and out and about. In keeping with the first one, Into the Sea, it’s ocean-based literary fiction although an altogether different story. 

Huge thanks to great Australian authors Robert Drewe and Jock Serong for their reviews. 

Back cover blurb

Some things can’t be outrun.

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.

“A tidal surge of a novel - true, tough and tender.” Robert Drewe

“A lyrical exploration of the 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

Please see this new website www.jaylaurie.com for more information about Jay and his novels.

The website - intothesea-novel.com - will finish up soon.