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The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll *The Time We have Taken was a perfect post-Christmas book for me. It was fast, entertaining and humorous and I loved all the games and switches the author played with this reader.Published 1 April, 2007 
The Time We have Taken was a perfect post-Christmas book for me. It was fast, entertaining and humorous and I loved all the games and switches the author played with this reader. Carroll has one of his characters reading George Johnson and the story brought to my mind Three Dollars (a bit more cheery though) as well as My Brother Jack. Whitlam looms in the background as potential ‘history’, but the real story is that the suburb is turning 100. Well someone reckons it is, so a committee is formed to celebrate and we have a wonderfully representative group of people to make sure all facets of the community get a guernsey, starting with the mayor, who sees an opportunity to show leadership and forward thinking. We learn the interesting stories that make the characters such good model suburban citizens and we know that some of the story is hidden secretly away. I could empathise with Michael and I am sure I know a Mrs Webster, two of the characters. This novel stood out for me in the way that a Howard Arkley painting is coloured. Clive Tilsley has been a bookseller since boyhood (about 34 years) This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker More from Fiction Book Reviews
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