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Marilyn Taylor


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Children's, Historical Fiction, Young Adult


Marilyn Taylor was born and educated in England, and has an economics degree from London University. She was a school librarian in a Dublin secondary school for 16 years and a college librarian.

Her first novels for young adults were the Jackie and Kev trilogy, Could This Be Love, I Wondered? (1994), Could I Love a Stranger? and Call Yourself a Friend?.

Faraway Home was a new departure for Marilyn, having a strong historical basis and being set in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. It won the prestigious Bisto Book of the Year Award and was followed by 17 Martin Street, set in Dublin during The Emergency (as the Second World War was knows in Ireland). Both have been hugely popular with schools throughout Ireland and beyond.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 208 ratings · 18 reviews · 66 distinct works • Similar authors
Faraway Home
3.98 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions
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17 Martin Street
3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Could I Love a Stranger
2.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1997
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Could This Be Love, I Wondered
2.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1997
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Shadows Like These: Poems
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994
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Public Policy in the Commun...
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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Call Yourself a Friend
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997
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Diary of a Mad Preacher's W...
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Partnership working: Policy...
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001 — 2 editions
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