Me and Mr. Booker (Paperback)

from ABShepherd

This is the story of a sixteen year old girl with a very troubled family life who falls in love and has an affair with a 30 something married man.The tale is well told and well written, but disturbing in many elements. Why did no one in Martha's life object to this affair? Not only does an affair...

from LukeS

Author Cory Taylor takes us on a frank and funny journey in Me and Mr. Booker: this story of a teenaged girl's - Martha's - seduction by a man twice her age has dark, precocious humor, but it cautions us about the relationships grown-ups suffer through their entire lives. It's brutally honest,but...

from CloggieDownunder

Me and Mr Booker, Cory Taylor's first novel, has been described as a coming of age novel. Martha is sixteen and tells people she is emotionally scarred from her parents' marriage break-up. She considers her unemployed (and seemingly unemployable) father, Victor, mad, and in a frightening rather t...

from CloggieDownunder

Me and Mr Booker, Cory Taylor's first novel, has been described as a coming of age novel. Martha is sixteen and tells people she is emotionally scarred from her parents' marriage break-up. She considers her unemployed (and seemingly unemployable) father, Victor, mad, and in a frightening rather t...

from foolplustime

I didn't care for this book, which is disappointing because I really thought it would be better. Usually I'm not terribly bothered by books in which nothing much happens but I did actually find this one boring and, in the first half, overly repetitive in terms of the content: Martha and Mr Booker...