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Dear Thief
Dear Thief
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL
In the middle of a winter’s night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend.
In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that calls up a shared past both women have preferred to forget.
Without knowing if her friend, Butterfly, is even alive or dead, she writes night after night – a letter of friendship that turns into something more revealing and recriminating. By turns a belated outlet of rage, an act of self-defence, and an offering of forgiveness, the letter revisits a betrayal that happened a decade and a half before, and dissects what is left of a friendship caught between the forces of hatred and love.
‘A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate’ TESSA HADLEY
‘Ravishing… Harvey offers an incandescent vision of hope and acceptance’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Prizes
Long-listed for The Folio Prize 2015 (UK),Long-listed for Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK),Long-listed for Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099597667 |
| ISBN10 | 0099597667 |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Item Weight | 195 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
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Media Reviews
A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate. -- Tessa Hadley
Harvey has struck gold… Perhaps because it is so intimate, so honest, so raw, Dear Thief provokes you to think about life, and Life, and your own life. -- Claire Kilroy * Guardian *
Beautiful... Exhilarating... Remarkable -- James Wood * New Yorker *
Compassionate, matter-of-fact and mysterious about death and its ultimate transforming… Harvey offers an incandescent vision of hope and acceptance. -- Catherine Taylor * Sunday Telegraph *
A quiet, unusual book, full of sad truths. I loved this epistolary novel of friendship, betrayal and forgiveness. -- Paula Hawkins, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN * Guardian *
Harvey’s writing is stunning: an effortless spool that winds back the layers… Brilliant. -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Singular and haunting. -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail *
Author's Bio
Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels Orbital, The Wilderness, All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Orbital was the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, and her other work has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.