Me and Mr Booker

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By: Cory Taylor

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Paperback | 3 July 2017 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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2.1 x 12.8 x 19.9

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I know what Mr Booker would say on the topic of experience. He would say what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

Martha could have said no when Mr Booker tried to kiss her. But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a dull town, her father is mad, her home is stifling. Of course she would kiss the charming Englishman who brightened her world with whiskey and cigarettes, adventure and sex-whatever the consequences.

Me and Mr Booker , Cory Taylor's acclaimed debut, is a novel about feeling old when you're young and acting young when you're not.

About the Author

Cory Taylor was born in Queensland in 1955. She was an award-winning novelist and screenwriter who also published short fiction and children’s books. Her first novel, Me and Mr Booker, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Pacific Region) in 2012 and her second novel, My Beautiful Enemy, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2014. She died on 5 July 2016, a couple of months after Dying: A Memoir was published.

Industry Reviews

'Elegant and controlled and wickedly funny.' -- David Vann
'Cory Taylor's Me and Mr Booker has the heart of Lolita and the soul of Catcher In The Rye, this is one of the most assured debut novels I have ever read. These characters feel so real that they become almost family. Refreshing, surprising, sexy and ultimately very moving.' -- Krissy Kneen
'A vibrant, questioning and unpredictable read.' * West Australian *
'Cory Taylor's characters are magnificently created.' -- Australian
'Me and Mr Booker is sharply observed and blackly comic, but it is also a tender depiction of love, sex, power and one girl's heartbreaking step into adulthood.' * Australian Bookseller + Publisher *

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