2 Books by Heather Taylor Johnson
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Overview: Heather Taylor Johnson was born in the United States and has lived in Australia since 1999. Jean Harley Was Here is her second novel; her first was Pursuing Love and Death. She has published four volumes of verse and is the poetry editor for Transnational Literature. She is also the editor of the anthology Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of Chronic Illness and Pain. Heather lives in Adelaide with her husband and three children.
Genre: General Fiction
Jean Harley Was Here
"Heather Taylor Johnson has a poet’s understanding of the world: her exploration of the way in which our lives intertwine – for better or for worse – is nuanced and poignant."
Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rights and The Good People Jean Harley – wife, mother, lover, dancer – is a shining light in the lives of those who know and love her. But when tragedy strikes, what becomes of the people she leaves behind? Her devoted husband, Stan, is now a single father to their young son, Orion. Her best friends, Neddy and Viv, find their relationship unravelling at the seams. And Charley, the ex-con who caused it all, struggles to reconcile his past crimes with his present mistakes. Life without Jean will take some getting used to, yet her indelible imprint remains.
i]Jean Harley Was Here[/i] is a touching and original exploration of love, relationships, and the ways in which we need each other.
Thirsting for Lemonade
In her third collection of poetry, Heather Taylor Johnson celebrates the liminal spaces between two cultures – the neither here nor there, the neither in nor out. It is indeed a world where ‘Home is a relative term’.
Thirsting for Lemonade is an affirmation of the migrant’s acceptance of never-quite-belonging, and still it is her attempt to forge new paths in foreign, and remembered, territory, where past is always present.
These poems recall the many things which get us home – photographs, a common cereal, a record album, a foosball table.
This latest collection is a celebration of ‘the things that are especially good / because they cannot last.’
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