{"id":90088,"date":"2019-03-27T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=90088"},"modified":"2019-03-28T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T04:05:30","slug":"susan-hurley-eight-lives-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/susan-hurley-eight-lives-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Hurley on Eight Lives, a game-changing medical thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There\u2019s perhaps no other author in the world better positioned to write a medical thriller than Susan Hurley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With over thirty years of experience in medical research and the pharmaceutical industry, Susan has had a front row seat to almost everything that goes on in the high-stakes, big-ego world of medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns out, it all ended up being the perfect material for a cracking thriller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Described as \u201ca smart, sophisticated thriller that explores power, class and prejudice,\u201d Susan Hurley\u2019s debut novel Eight Lives<\/a><\/em> is like nothing you\u2019ve ever read before. Told from multiple perspectives, it tells the story of a former Vietnamese refugee, David Tran, who is on the brink of transforming immunology with his groundbreaking research. Before he can test his potentially life-changing drug, however, David ends up dead in highly suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Susan, Eight Lives<\/em> is the result of a lifetime of knowledge and first-hand experience of such a dynamic field, as well as a burning desire to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been a keen reader and always had a lurking ambition to write a novel,\u201d she says, but the busy nature of life in medical research meant that she never had the time. It was only after she had reached a stage of life where she had more time to herself that Susan began once more to entertain the notion of writing a novel – and we\u2019re so glad she did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our reviewer Ben Hunter, Booktopia\u2019s Fiction Category Manager, had this to say of the novel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFast-moving, smart and powerfully told through a diverse cast of characters, Eight Lives<\/em> is a sophisticated thriller examining the money, manipulation, power and prejudice that lies at the heart of medicine’s cutting edge. I was hooked and you will be too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben and I sat down this week with Susan this week to chat all about her book, the tragic real life drug trial that inspired it, and everything in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a listen below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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