Heather, on the other hand, seems to be experiencing a break from reality, brought on by her grief and exacerbated by what she knows of her mother’s illness(es). She was probably an anxious child, and I’ve probably written her that way because I was an anxious child. She’s introspective and worried and able to talk herself into lots of terrible things. Maybe she just needed some respite from that worry. Maybe Noel came into her life to keep her afloat momentarily. I hope she will be well. I think she will be well.
About Anna Spargo-Ryan
Anna Spargo-Ryan has worked in digital marketing for fifteen years, including time on Ramsay Street, in the Formula 1 pits and on bus magazines. Her short fiction has been published in Kill Your Darlings, and she also writes on parenting and mental health for the Guardian, Overland and Daily Life, among other publications. She lives in Melbourne with her people, animals and a cat called Norman. The Paper House is her first novel.
First published 2016 in Picador by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
1 Market Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2000
Copyright © Anna Spargo-Ryan 2016
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Cover illustration: Nomoco, www.pocko.com
The characters in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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