about the book
Aaron Rowe sleepwalks, and he doesn’t know who the dead woman is who appears in his nightmares. She’s someone buried deep below his memory, unable to be retrieved. One thing he does know: People make him uncomfortable.
When Aaron receives an apprenticeship with a funeral director, he first needs a haircut. His last one was when he had to cut gum out of his hair in the fifth grade. He flinches at the barber’s touch, but soon Aaron looks like a new man—talk, dark, and handsome.
Aaron soon finds that he feels more comfortable among the dead. Death doesn’t scare him, yet even the funeral director, Mr. Barton, and his daughter, Sky, make Aaron nervous.
He has to find someone to trust, though. His grandmother is diagnosed with dementia and becomes dangerous. He may need to turn to Mr. Barton and Sky, two people who haven’t given up on him.
about the author
Australian author Scot Gardner isn’t sure how he ended up a writer. His first career choice was veterinarian, but he found that didn’t meet his expectations when interning with a vet. Then he became Scot Gardner, the gardener: He worked as a landscaper and studied massage. Then he worked as a masseur while studying counseling and psychotherapy. He moved on to make money playing the Didjeridu and selling instruments online. (He was pretty good with the Didjeridu—he once won a national talent competition with the instrument.) He waited tables, drove trucks, worked as a group therapist, and taught secondary education.
Then, somehow, he became a writer.
Maybe it was his childhood? Though he writes about happy families, his own family was “boringly happy.” Happy families don’t make good stories, he says. He grew up in Greensborough with two younger brothers; his mum was a Diversional Therapist, and his dad, a draftsman.
Even though he didn’t become a veterinarian, animals have been a constant in Scot’s life, along with the wild country and adventure. He now lives with his wife and three children in Eastern Victoria.
Source:
Author website
Author biography: Wikipedia
Author biography: The Literature Center
Author interview: Fantasy’s Ink
Author interview: YouTube
Also by Scot Gardner:
Bookmark Days. Allen & Unwin Academic. 2011.
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