In Masquerade, Australian writer Mary Fisher constructs a sequence of seven interconnected stories set within a nursing home.

The residents—each carrying fragments of earlier lives, identities, and allegiances—become the centre of a quiet theatre of memory, where past selves resurface through recollection, rivalry, confession, and invention.

Rather than treating old age as a closing chapter, Fisher presents it as a strange social stage: a place where history, culture, and private mythology continue to collide. The result is a reflective, sometimes darkly observant portrait of ageing, identity, and the masks people carry long after the world has stopped paying attention.

1989 Simcha Press first edition hardback.