Theft: a love story. Peter Carey. 2006.

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Told by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty pound’ brother Hugh, it recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher’s plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to northern New South Wales. Here the formerly famous artist is reduced to being a caretaker for his biggest collector, and the nurse for his erratic brother. Then the mysterious Marlene turns up one stormy night, clad in a pair of Manolo Blahniks. Claiming that the brothers’ friend and neighbour owns an original Jacques Leibovitz, she soon sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making or ruin of them all.