Dear Thief
A Novel
$23.71
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2015
Summary
Newly rejacketed - Dear Thief is a novel about female friendship, betrayal and imagination from the prize-winning author of 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 d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099597667 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099597667 |
| Author: | Samantha Harvey |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 195g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
A glorious , sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate .
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 *
About The Author
Samantha Harvey
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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