Dear Thief: A Novel - Softcover

Born in Kent, England, in 1975, SAMANTHA HARVEY, has an MA in philosophy and an MA, with distinction, from the Bath Spa Creative Writing course in 2005. In addition to writing, she has traveled extensively and taught in Japan and lived in Ireland and New Zealand. She has written two other novels, "The Wilderness" which was a Man Booker Prize nominee and Orange Prize finalist, and "All Is Song." She recently cofounded an environmental charity and lives in Bath, England.

Praise for Dear Thief:

"Dear Thief is a beautiful, tentative success, a novel with no interest in conformity. Harvey’s book is propelled not by the usual structures of novel writing but by the quality of its author’s mind, by the luminousness of her prose . . . I was at moments reminded of Marilynne Robinson . . . Remarkable.” James Wood, The New Yorker

"Dear Thief is a hypnotic, beautiful and sometimes dark incantation a letter to an old friend that lures the reader in and doesn't let go. Samantha Harvey's novel is a deftly drawn reminder of our deeply human desire for connection and the risk involved in the revelation of that desire." A.M. Homes, author of May We Be Forgiven and The End of Alice

Samantha Harvey’s Dear Thief is a novel of profound beauty. I’ll leave it at that.” Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours and The Snow Queen

A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate.” Tessa Hadley, author of Clever Girl and The London Train

With her eerie and arresting latest, Harvey (The Wilderness) gives the neologism frenemy’ a full-book treatment . . . This controlled, thrilling novel derives its power from the perversity of a friendship in which the pair is always closer when one has taken too much from the other.’” Publishers Weekly

A story about a long friendship and the betrayals that tore it apart, this thoughtful meditation, interspersed with reflections on philosophy, religion, and poetry, is about the passages of time, the accumulation of memory, and the hard-won wisdom of aging.” Library Journal

Visceral, haunting . . . [Dear Thief] explores the psychological trauma of an intimate betrayal with such empathy that readers will feel drawn into the narrator’s own confused sense of self, fear of closeness, and longing for exactly what has hurt her.” The Huffington Post

Intelligent . . . ravishing . . . An incandescent vision of hope and acceptance.” Sunday Telegraph (London)

Harvey has struck gold . . . a heady, elegiac combination of eroticism and loss, loathing and rapture.” Claire Kilroy, The Guardian (London)

Harvey’s writing is stunning; an effortless spool that gradually winds back the layers, dropping in revelations . . . Brilliant.” The Times (London)

A hypnotic read.” Good Housekeeping (London)