Carey's more recent work has explored real and imagined episodes from Australian history, and mythology from a variety of revisionist perspectives, while maintaining a strong sympathy for, and identification with, the victims rather than the victors of history. For a writer who does not simply exploit traditional genres or cater to conventional expectations, Carey's books have sold extremely well in Australia, England, and the United States and have been widely translated.
Peter Philip Carey was born on 7 May 1943 in the provincial town of Bacchus Marsh in Victoria, where his parents, Percival Stanley Carey and Helen Jean Warriner Carey, operated the local General Motors dealership. His paternal grandfather, R. Graham Carey, flew the first airmail in South Australia and barnstormed in a Bleriot monoplane now restored and displayed in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. The youngest of three children, Peter was educated at Bacchus Marsh and Geelong Grammar School. In 1961 he began a science degree at Monash University but abandoned it in 1962 to work as an advertising copywriter in Melbourne. He married Leigh Weetman in 1964.
From 1967 to 1970 Carey lived in London and traveled extensively in Europe. Between 1964 and 1970 he wrote three novels that were not published and had his first short stories published.
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