![]() While there she discovers a psychic vampire preying on the town a creature who sucks the life out of its victims before committing their lives to paper. The main character is PA to a successful urban fantasy novelist who has been sent to Bristol to conduct some research. The titular story was my favourite of the bunch. This story is about the main character’s understanding of her sexual experiences, when she starts to see them in a new light. It’s set around underworld shootings in an Australian city (I would guess Melbourne, but I don’t think it ever said), and told from the point of view of a legal aid. This story can be most accurately described as crime. She is watched, throughout her life by an immortal who has singled her out the smartest person in Babylon and is fascinated by her mind. It’s about the best perfumier in the city, one of the first chemists in the world. The first story in this collection is set in ancient Babylon. ![]() The relationship of the writer to her subject." Karen Joy Fowler eloquently explains what Sussex writes about in the introduction: ![]() Thematically, women are central to all the stories in a variety of different ways. ![]() I have to admit, this collection was closer to literary realism than I usually read. Thief of Lives is a collection of four short stories without common setting. ![]()
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