MY HUNDRED LOVERS

A beautiful new novel from one of Australia's premier novelists.

On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, a woman looks back on her story of sensual bodily experiences, with one hundred vignettes from a life adding up to one simple human truth. Looking back at her life, the heroine considers how her sexual identity and her character have been shaped by the sexual revolution and women's liberation. And how, after all the emotion, the love, the hatred and the despair is done with, the great and trivial acts of her bodily life reveal an imperfect, yet whole self. By turns melancholic, reflective, humorous, sharp and wise, this is an original, haunting and exhilarating novel from one of Australia's premier novelists. Lyrical and enigmatic, sensual and elegiac, My Hundred Lovers tells the history of one woman through her sensual and sexual experiences and relationships. Susan Johnson was shortlisted for the 1991 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for her novel Flying Lessons (Heinemann 1990), shortlisted for the 1994 National Book Council's Banjo Award for the novel A Big Life (Pan Macmillan 1993) and shortlisted for the 2000 National Biography Award for her memoir A Better Woman (Random House 1999). Her other books include Hungry Ghosts (Pan Macmillan 1996), Messages from Chaos (Harper and Row 1987), Womenlovesex (Random House, 1997 editor and contributor). The Broken Book was shortlisted for the 2005 Nita B Kibble Award; the Best Fiction Book section of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award; the Westfield/Waverley Library Literary Award, and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal Award for an Outstanding Australian Literary Work.