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Dear Thief (Hardback)

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Hardback 272 Pages
Published: 25/09/2014

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This book is Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Long listed for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Long listed for the 2015 Jerwood Prize. 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 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. The thoughtfulness, intensity and sheer beauty of her writing in her first two novels, The Wilderness and All Is Song, brought Samantha Harvey both huge acclaim and many prize shortlistings. Those readers who loved those novels will fall on Dear Thief with relief and delight.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780224101721
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 404 g
Dimensions: 223 x 142 x 27 mm

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