Alison Booth

And that is like instinctive.

So this notion of muscle memory, and I couldn't help but think of the primal instincts that we have,

you know, as animals without memories, what would we have?

You know, maybe instincts to move our muscles, obviously, to eat.

Sex, I thought, so it was kind of interesting when a female came into his life.

In a way, I asked myself, well, why is Robbie not taking advantage of this woman coming into his life?

With his primal instincts, which have made him do exercise, made him eat,

What's wrong with sex?

Because they're very attracted to one another.

Anyway, that is not how he thought.

Well, I mean, it's such a primal instinct, isn't it?

Oh, you're both setting me up.

Alison, can you adjudicate?

Well, yes, I think it's a rom-com too, and I mean that in the best sense of the word.

How's that?

I found all these drafts of Tirralira lying about all over the place and I thought I'd just get it together one last time.

So I made it into a short novel and it did well and it won the Miles Franklin Prize, which was very gratifying.