Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey
Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2015 Jerwood Prize In the middle of a winters night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend.
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 *
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 *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099597667 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099597667 |
| Title | Dear Thief |
| Author | Samantha Harvey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| 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) |
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