Dear Thief

From acclaimed Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Award finalist Samantha Harvey, a stunning novel of female friendship, betrayal, and revenge "You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy," writes the unnamed narrator of Dear Thief . The thief is Nina, or Butterfly, who disappeared eighteen years earlier and who is being summoned by this letter, this bomb, these recollections, revisions, accusations, and confessions. "Sometimes I imagine, out of sheer playfulness, that I am writing this as a kind of defence for having murdered and buried you under the patio." Dear Thief is a letter to an old friend, a song, a jewel, and a continuously surprising triangular love story. Samantha Harvey writes with a dazzling blend of fury and beauty about the need for human connection and the brutal vulnerability that need exposes. "While I write my spare hand might be doing anything for all you know; it might be driving a pin into your voodoo stomach." Dear Thief is a rare novel that traverses the human heart in a striking and indelible way.

Product details

• Authors: Samantha Harvey
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2015
• EAN: 9780062415844
• ISBN: 978-0-06-241584-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Thrillers / Legal, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Friendship, FICTION: World Literature / England / 21st Century