G. R. Harman · Writer · Sydney
The quiet stuff does
most of the work.
Stories about love, family and the sticky bits in between. Told plainly, with a joke never far away.
On the writing desk
Love, Butterflies
& Other Sticky Stories
A mosaic of interconnected stories about memory, friendship, grief and family.
WORK IN PROGRESS
How I look at things
Grand gestures
get the credit.
I’m interested in the small, unglamorous ways people look after each other: the cup of tea nobody asked for, the well-timed joke, the family story that gets retold every Christmas until it’s practically furniture. The quiet stuff does most of the work.
I like the gap between what people say and what they mean. Someone announces they hate football, then turns up to the grand final anyway. Most of the good stuff happens in that gap.
I’m also drawn to the family traditions nobody can quite explain any more, and everybody keeps up anyway.
Readers, agents, editors
and the mildly curious.
You’re all welcome. Say hello.