5/19/2023 0 Comments Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor![]() ![]() 'A vibrant, questioning and unpredictable read.' West Australian 'Cory Taylor's characters are magnificently created.' Australian She died on 5 July 2016, a couple of months after Dying: A Memoir was published. 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 was an award-winning novelist and screenwriter who also published short fiction and children's books. 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.Ĭory Taylor was born in Queensland in 1955. Of course she would kiss the charming Englishman who brightened her world with whiskey and cigarettes, adventure and sex-whatever the consequences. But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a dull town, her father is mad, her home is stifling. Martha could have said no when Mr Booker tried to kiss her. He would say what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts. I know what Mr Booker would say on the topic of experience. ![]()
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