Dear Thief

Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeLonglisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for FictionLonglisted for the 2015 Jerwood PrizeIn 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.

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A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate. Tessa Hadley

Product details

• Authors: Samantha Harvey, Harvey Samantha
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780099597667
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959766-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, hilary and jackie; my summer of love; heavenly creatures;, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary