Houseman Paula

Houseman Paula writes comic women’s fiction under the name Paula Houseman, drawing on family history, identity, and the liberating uses of humour. Her first novel, Odyssey In A Teacup, follows Ruth Roth through a life shaped by a formidable family, enduring friendships, and a fascination with ancient myth. The story treats mythological figures as a language for understanding ordinary fears and relationships rather than as supernatural characters. Houseman’s publisher information identifies WildWoman Publishing in Sydney, while catalogue records date the novel to 2015. The book later became the opening volume in the Ruth Roth sequence, followed by further stories about the same central character. Houseman has described her background in graphic design and her university study of linguistics and sociology as important to her interest in how words and images form identity. That combination gives her fiction its particular blend of social observation, wordplay, family comedy, and reflective character development.