Wallpaper People

Description

This quiet volume invites you to consider the overlooked lives.

If we struggle to know dysfunction, it’s because it doesn’t know itself. Seduction, gaslighting, gossip, lies, and exploitation are intriguing because they are the darkness looking back. Little betrayals and duplicities make up our everyday humanity.

Who are the people we stop seeing? The middle-aged housewife? the homeless bloke? the parent lost in a dementia fog? the scrawny tweaker lurking in an alley? the faded wallpaper in an unused room?

Kitty Gardner’s suburban life is a thin veneer of respectability. Inside these pages lies the darker selves.

Author’s Bio

Kitty wants to live in a world filled with cat cafes and interesting conversations, staff meetings of fewer than fifteen minutes, and housework elves that make magic happen.

As a teacher with more than 30 years of chalkface experience, she’s worked in three states and Territories, casting classic literary pearls before moody adolescents in a never-say-die quest for cogent English sentences. Kitty has won many teaching awards and scholarships and intends to stay in the classroom until she’s carried out. She’s quietly suspicious of nice people.

When Kitty’s not bingeing on crime dramas or napping, you can find her over-thinking the joy out of life or procrastinating about writing.