Liesel Meminger

And you can't ask for anything more than that.

So The Book Thief is about Liesel.

She's an orphan German girl who comes to live with foster parents Hans and Rosa in a small town called Molking in Nazi Germany.

And she is the thief of our title.

And so anyone who does even the smallest act of kindness, as we talked about earlier, a boy giving a piece of bread to an old man, everything is magnified.

And so all of a sudden I was writing this book and I was so alive when I was writing it.

I mean, I had some really dark times as well where it wasn't working and, you know, there are all sorts of different ways run-throughs and things that didn't work, like Liesel, the main character, narrating the book, or just a third-person narrator.

I couldn't get death as a narrator right the first time.