Cassie McCullagh

So it was great.

Wow.

Because he worked with him very briefly in his tragically short career.

All right.

Well, thank you both for being such great readers.

You always bring so much more to these books than we ever expect.

Thank you, Madeline.

Thank you, Tim.

That's it for this week's edition of The Bookshelf.

Next time, Australian nature writer Inga Simpson's first collection of short stories, Once We Were Wildlife.

Also, Japanese novelist Asuko Yazuki and her new book, Hooked.

She's the author of Butter, which was very popular here in Australia.

And also, Helen Bain's The Daffodil Days, a novel about the final year in the life of Sylvia Plath.

I'm Cassie McCullough.

Hello and welcome to ABC Radio National's The Bookshelf.

And a heartfelt story of friendship and loss in Deborah Adelaide's When I Am 64.

And to take us straight into these stories today, let's meet our reviewers.

Hello, hello.

Hello.

Now, we're going to begin with the latest from Fiona Kelly-McGregor, who's written essays, art history and experimental genre-busting work as well as fiction.