The book offers a bit of sex, but it's ultimately about the momentum of misshapen lives.' It's elegant and controlled and wickedly funny. Booker is a kind of Lolita from Lolita's point of view. Booker is riveting a disturbing, darkly comic coming of age story unlike any you have ever seen!' Jill McCorkle, author of Going Away Shoes Cory Taylor is a wonderful writer and Me and Mr. Booker a seductive chameleon who challenges the reader's assumptions and hopes every step of the way. 'Part Lolita, part Bridget Jones, Martha, witty and wise beyond her years, is lost in a world of dysfunctional adults, particularly the charming, alcohol-soaked Mr. 'Taylor's straightforward prose captures the nuances of being at an age where you cannot see the differences between being a teenager and being an adult.' about Martha, who, in her determination not to become like the stagnantly disappointed adults in her life, embarks on another rite you may find familiar: the probably painful, perhaps misguided, and definitely enlightening rush to grow up.' (Jan.Regional Commonwealth Book Prize Winner, 2012

Agent: Nathaniel Jacks, Inkwell Management. Unfortunately, the characters, although well-drawn, are forgettable, and the novel leaves only impressions of discontent. Taylor’s straightforward prose captures the nuances of being at an age where you cannot see the differences between being a teenager and being an adult. Meanwhile, her mother throws parties to “get her through the weekends” and her father becomes increasingly unstable, prompting the return of her aloof older brother, Eddie. After years of watching her father manipulate her mother and having an outsider status at school, Martha feels like her life has finally begun. Booker, a smooth-talking Englishman, who, fueled by mutual feelings of being trapped and bored with life, begins an affair with her made all the easier by his wife’s proclivity for falling asleep in a boozy haze. Like the town’s other residents, she drinks copiously and waits for something to happen that will give color to her humdrum life. “Everyone in it was like me, trying to move on and start something, anything at all, even if it was almost certain to go bad,” explains 16-year-old narrator Martha. Restlessness pervades Taylor’s debut novel of suburban claustrophobia and the difficulty of cutting ties to even an unhappy home.

Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor