Me And Mr. Booker - Softcover

Taylor, Cory

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ISBN 10: 1921758112 ISBN 13: 9781921758119

Publisher: Text Publishing, 2011

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Looking back, Martha could've said no when Mr Booker first tried to kiss her. That would've been the sensible thing to do. But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a small dull town - a cemetery with lights - her father is mad, her home is stifling, and she's waiting for the rest of her life to begin. Of course Martha would kiss the charming Englishman who brightened her world with style, adventure, whisky, cigarettes and sex. But Martha didn't count on the consequences. Me and Mr Booker is a story about feeling old when you're young and acting young when you're not.

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About the Author

Cory Taylor is an award-winning screenwriter who has also published short fiction and children's books. She lives in Brisbane. Already a success in her native Australia, the searingly honest, and funny, Me and Mr Booker is her first novel.

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Australian Taylor’s debut is a Lolita-esque tale of 16-year-old Martha’s affair with an unhappily married older man. Martha meets Mr. Booker and his wife at a party hosted by her mother and immediately falls under the sway of the glamorous couple. Before long, they are taking her clothes shopping and paying for her to get her hair styled. It’s a welcome escape for Martha, who wishes her mother would kick her feckless father to the curb once and for all. Martha falls into an affair with Mr. Booker and discovers the dissatisfaction behind the facade of his carefree life with Mrs. Booker. Her mother and Mrs. Booker remain blissfully ignorant, but Martha’s father, when he isn’t concentrating on his latest scheme to get money from Martha’s mother, is suspicious of the amount of time Martha is spending with this older friend of the family. It’s hard to sympathize with Taylor’s characters, particularly Martha’s self-involved parents, but this unsentimental coming-of-age story presents a nice counterpoint to the typically dramatic tales of teenage angst. --Kristine Huntley

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