Description

Stacked Decks is not just a memoir — it's a testimony from the edge of the system.

Told through the eyes of a live-in caregiver in the UK, this powerful narrative exposes the hidden realities behind Direct Payment schemes, elderly care, and the emotional toll of being both irreplaceable and invisible. It captures the quiet suffering, moral compromise, and systemic failures that caregivers endure behind closed doors — unacknowledged, overburdened, and often blamed for what others ignore.

With piercing honesty and restrained rage, Peter Wilk documents his descent into burnout while trying to uphold the dignity of another. What begins as compassion becomes entrapment. What should be teamwork becomes isolation.

This is the story of those who are never asked how they are — only whether the bins were taken out, the pills given, and the complaints silenced.

For every unseen worker who stayed too long, and for every truth buried under bureaucracy — Stacked Decks gives you your voice back.