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Shirley Marr

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Shirley Marr is a multi-award winning children's and YA author and a first generation Chinese-Australian living in sunny Perth. Her titles are Fury, Preloved, Little Jiang and All Four Quarters of the Moon and the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers A Glasshouse of Stars

She describes herself as having a Western Mind and an Eastern Heart and writes in the middle where both collide. She takes milk and sugar with her tea much to the dismay of her oolong drinking friends and eats chicken feet much to the disgust of her Aussie friends. Her passion is to distil her cultural heritage through the lens of resilient young women.
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Average rating: 3.78 · 3,142 ratings · 611 reviews · 8 distinct worksSimilar authors
Fury

3.62 avg rating — 1,188 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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A Glasshouse of Stars

3.96 avg rating — 786 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions
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Preloved

3.72 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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All Four Quarters of the Moon

4.18 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions
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Countdown to Yesterday

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"I feel like I could bring 20 copies of this to booktalks and the 21st kid would still fight to read it."
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" Thank you Nisha-Anne for blessing me with this review! I am still very interested in reading your Indian Australian children's book if you write it xx ...more "
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“I swapped my heart for a bargaining chip a long time ago. And here I am turning it over and over again in my hand, not sure what to trade it in for.”
Shirley Marr, Fury

“I walked up to the window, raised my palm and pressed it against the pane. It left a bloodied handprint. Through the red shape—my red flag, my riot sign—I could see Neil staring at me.”
Shirley Marr, Fury

“So it is just you and your friends then.”

“Yes. Is that so hard to believe?” Is it because we’re girls? I want to say. You think a bunch of girls are not capable of something like this?
Shirley Marr, Fury

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message 175: by Amber

Amber I was reading a blog about Wedding vendor scams and guess what I saw!

http://www.onewed.com/photo-and-video...

I hope you're doing well! <3


message 174: by Carolyn

Carolyn Crane Hey Shirley! Thanks so much for friends invite and the kind words on the buttons. It was a fun way to blow off steam, and if it helps even just one person help see the craziness of that behavior, then I'm happy. All my best on your books!


message 173: by Mir

Mir Thanks for the friend request, Shirley. Your comment threads are highly entertaining!


Eyehavenofilter Thanks for adding me as a friend it looks like I have more great reading ahead!


Lisbeth Avery {Domus Libri} Wow, thank you for the friendvite! I can't wait to read your books and nice answer :)


message 170: by Sally

Sally The pleasure, Miss Marr, is all mine! :D


message 169: by Reynje

Reynje ::SQUISHY HUG::


message 168: by jesse

jesse look, what i found (reminded me of your photos ala alice in wonderland):

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KJ Shadows thank you for the friend add :) hope to have many convo's about books with you in the future! hehe


message 166: by Ari

Ari Shirley wrote: "Did I mention The Book Thief?"

Oh my, I am pretty sure that you didn't, but feel free to mention it anytime, LOL!


message 165: by Ari

Ari Thank you for your kind words, they mean so much to me :)
I've been meaning to read 'The Book Thief' and you gave me one more reason to do so. Also I can't wait to read 'Fury' (maybe I'll start with it).
Thanks as well for the friendship and happy writing! ;)


message 164: by Wendy

Wendy Holliday I'm next in line for the Preloved blog tour! :) Can't wait


message 163: by Janina

Janina Shirley, look what I spotted out there in the wild! It has been out a while, but was still labeled new ;).

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message 162: by Sarah

Sarah "Shirley Marr accepted your friendship!"
--Goodreads

Whoohoo! :)


message 161: by Jess

Jess Thanks for the add, Shirley!! :) I think it's awesome that you're an author but you review so many YA Aussie books, and chat with us Aussies too :D


punkasaur I prefer the term 'a-random-unicorn-and-chocolate-obsessed-bookworm', but thanks! ^_^ Just call me Max, since you seem like a nice person, and I like being friends with nice people. Well, who doesn't?

And I'm totally jealous of that fact that you're an Aussie. Not only do you have cool accents, you get other books that the rest of the blogging world are dying to have easily. I got lucky with Fury, since my friend happened to have a copy <.O


message 159: by Ten

Ten sure thing, thank you for accepting! :) hoping to read your books asap :D <3


message 158: by Alexa

Alexa I'm so happy that you accepted! It seemed like only something I could hope for, haha!

Your package was something I eagerly awaited, and it's still prettier than I imagined. You've got such a cute handwriting! And in pink too! Thank you! :)


message 157: by Crystal

Crystal Aw thanks for accepting! =D


message 156: by Lissa

Lissa Well I haven't read Fury yet, but Preloved sounded more like my kind of thing, so that's why I chose that one.


message 155: by Lissa

Lissa I ordered Preloved from my local Dymocks today! *flail*


message 154: by Neeks

Neeks So I'm a bit silly and am going through old copies of the West for an assignment, I JUST saw the review for Preloved and I got a bit overexcited so I made a blog post about it haha! Just thought I'd let you know :)


message 153: by Sonya (last edited May 03, 2012 08:58PM)

Sonya Hi, Shirley! Thanks for the sweet message. ;-) How are you recently? Are you enjoying Miles from Ordinary? Have a lovely day and happy reading! :-D


message 152: by Tina

Tina Hi Shirley! Yay indeed for our new friendship! :)


message 151: by Laura

Laura Sigh. I know. It must be a character flaw or something. I also have issues with fictional books related to the Holocaust. Which is silly, but it is what it is.


message 150: by Laura

Laura Hi Shirley! Thanks for friending! I've seen you around quite a bit! And I would totally love to read your books (I'm not just saying that, I check
Amazon for them once a week), but I can't seem to get them where I live. I will somehow get them eventually, though!


Katherine Thanks for accepting my request! I'm sure The Book Thief will grow on me :)


message 148: by Zoë

Zoë Thank you Shirley for accepting my friend request <3


message 147: by Jessie Leigh (last edited Apr 18, 2012 01:56PM)

Jessie Leigh My felicitations on your continued, brilliant existence, on this, the day of your birth!

Or in other words - have a great birthday. I hope it is filled with tea and delicious treats!


message 146: by Ginny

Ginny Happy Happy Birthday you awesome lady! Have lots of fabulous tea today!


message 145: by Jo

Jo Happy Birthday gorgeous girl!

Have a wonderful, wonderful day :D

xxxx


message 144: by Bonnie

Bonnie Happy Birthday Miss Shirley! I hope you have a super fantastic day. :D


message 143: by Jasprit

Jasprit Shirley happy birthday! Hope you have a rocking day with loads of tunes from the 80's and cupcakes of course!!! :D xx


message 142: by Reynje (last edited Apr 18, 2012 02:56AM)

Reynje Dear lovely Shirley, I hope you've had a fabulous day :) Here's a kitten just for you:

kitten/

xo


message 141: by Sonya

Sonya Happy Birthday, Shirley! :-D


message 140: by Michelle

Michelle Happy Birthday to you Shirley :) Hope you had a wonderful day!

Ps. I went into a book store today and saw Preloved between Saving Francesca and Tomorrow When The War Began :D


message 139: by Chachic

Chachic Happy Happy Birthday, Shirley! Hope you're having a lovely book-filled day. :)


message 138: by Rose

Rose Happy Birthday Shirley! <3


message 137: by Jenna

Jenna Happy Birthday Shirley! Hope you have a super fantastic awesome day. xxx


Emily May Happy birthday Shirley! :)


message 135: by Emily

Emily It's your birthday?! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVELY! I hope your day is as fabulous as you are :) xx


message 134: by Amanda

Amanda Happy Birthday, Shirley-Whirly! I hope Bellatrix bought you a great present xox


message 133: by Shirley

Shirley Marr That's so sweet Renee :)

And same here, in fact it's probably time for a Labyrinth rewatch!

xx


message 132: by Reynje

Reynje I'll be heading to the beach tonight.. care to join me? *wink*


message 131: by Karli

Karli That's ok! I'm always up for showing some love to fellow Australian's! :D <3


Elizabeth Drake Thanks for friending me! I am glad you like my posts. I will try to keep them coming. I am sure it won't be long before we have more books in common since I have just recently discovered the YA coming out of Australia is BRILLIANT!


message 129: by Celine

Celine Thank you so much for the add, Shirley! ♥ Looking forward to talk to you on GR! :)


message 128: by Michelle

Michelle Priory sounds kinda like my uni, only I'm the poor scholarship kid lol :)


message 127: by Michelle

Michelle Psssst hey Shirley...I'm really liking Fury so far :D


aidanadia Guess what? I went out and bought your book today - yay! So excited, can't wait to tear into it (not literally!)


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