Small Joys of Real Life

  This novel was written on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri

  People of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past,

  present and emerging.

  Copyright

  The author acknowledges the following quoted material: p. 91: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing in The Complete Works, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, London, 1988; p. 227: Zadie Smith, Swing Time, Penguin Random House UK, London, 2017.

  Published in Australia and New Zealand in 2021

  by Hachette Australia

  (an imprint of Hachette Australia Pty Limited)

  Level 17, 207 Kent Street, Sydney NSW 2000

  www.hachette.com.au

  Copyright © Allee Richards 2021

  This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be stored or reproduced by any process without prior written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher.

  978 0 7336 4547 1

  978 0 7336 4548 8 (ebook edition)

  Cover design by Alissa Dinallo

  Cover image courtesy of Shutterstock

  Author photograph courtesy of Karin Locke

  Text design by Bookhouse, Sydney