Not what you think. Matthew Vandrew was born somewhere in Europe, and once he got fed up with it, he moved to Australia and then came back. He doesn't have a husband, children, or pets, so his only company is characters he creates and torments with secret and very unsettling pleasure. For the rest of the world, he is just this nice what's-his-funny-name guy. He's a man of very few words, so nobody actually believes him when he comes out as a writer.