Shirley Marr – Official Website of Shirley Marr, Author of Young Adult and Childrens Fiction

Mei Ling Pang was born at an inauspicious time on an inauspicious day, so wherever she goes, misfortune seems to follow. When Little Jiang hops out of his grave and into Mei’s life — strange clothes, greenish skin, fangs and all – Mei believes her luck has gone from bad to worse, especially once her […]

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If you had a second chance at love, would you do it all over again? Amy has enough to deal with for one lifetime. A superstitious Chinese mother. A best friend whose mood changes as dramatically as her hair colour. A reputation for being strange. The last thing she needs is to be haunted by […]

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Let me tell you my story. Not just the facts I know you want to hear. If I’m going to tell you my story, I’m telling it my way. Strap yourself in… Eliza Boans has everything. A big house. A great education. A bright future. So why is she sitting in a police station confessing […]

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Praise for Preloved

This book is full of humour, warmth and a genuine understanding of the difficulties faced in our modern, multicultural society. 4 out of 5 stars.

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Preloved is full of warmth, humour and retro supernatural. Will appeal to girls who love Twilight … and especially to those who don’t.

The West Australian

PRAISE FOR FURY

…Eliza, a stand-up comic voice replete with the conventions of oral comedy: deliberate verbal red herrings, asides, careful timing, punchlines, one liners. To me, Marr’s character Eliza is a modern and very upmarket version of Kylie Mole.

Marlyn MacDonald (Perilous Adventures)

About the Author

Shirley Marr is a first generation Chinese-Australian living in sunny Perth and an author of Young Adult and children’s fiction. LITTLE JIANG, a spirited Middle Grade novel featuring a pint-sized Chinese vampire is slated for release on 1 October 2020 through Fremantle Press. A GLASSHOUSE OF STARS, a contemporary migration novel based on her childhood story is set to be published internationally in mid 2021 by … Read More about About the Author

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First line: “When I stepped out into the bright

Fist line: “The places we are born come back”🐟
Cover: the Aussie edition is so beautiful and evocative of the story setting, the title and author name are raised and textural. The slug thing with the red marking is my favourite beastie🐟
Opinion: wow! Such an original voice. There were so many places where I stopped just to appreciate the way the author has envisioned something, wrought the words, very dark and delightful🐟
Favourite passage: “The meat was gamey, a little like the fish we used to eat from the water. The blood ran down my wrists. The dark lowered in. I prodded the fire back to life. Dug the heart out with a stick.”🐟
Closing thoughts: this book has given me a great appetite to write!🐟
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Blurb: It’s been sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget her childhood on the canals. But a phone call will soon reunite them, and bring those wild years flooding back: the secret language that Gretel and her mother invented; the strange boy, Marcus, living on the boat that final winter; the creature said to be underwater, swimming ever closer.

In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but to wade deeper into their past, where family secrets and aged prophesies will all come tragically alive again.

Wanted it to be like old times with my chai latte

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