“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.” Margaret Atwood


Gabrielle Carey has been writing for as long as she can remember. Her first co-written novel,
Puberty Blues , was published at the age of 20. She has since written many other books, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as essays and newspaper articles. Her most recent book, Waiting Room, published by Scribe, is a personal essay about her late mother, Joan Carey.


“A wise, sorrowful and graceful work, at once exquisitely tender and beautifully written.”

Gail Jones