My Life as a Fake is cleverly conceived, robustly brought tolife and ends in the grave. It is written with assurance and nolittle heed is paid to the value of entertainment. And itmakes you think.

In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance. Having fled Melbourne for the seedy, sweaty streets of Kuala Lumpur, Chubb finds himself, just as Frankenstein was, haunted and pursued by his own creation.