Beginner's pluck: Writer and student Austin Taylor

After deferring her place at Harvard Law School, Austin wrote her first novel. But it is her second novel, Notes on Infinity, again written during a year out of college, that has recently been published

Author Austin Taylor: 'I’m working on two things, hoping one will work out.' Picture: Maryam Hiradfar

GROWING up on a dairy farm, Austin loved sport and reading.

“I’d take two books out of the library one morning, and change them for two more the following day,” she says.