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.

**FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL**

Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women''s Prize for Fiction
Longlisted 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.

• | Author: Samantha Harvey
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Sep 03, 2015
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780099597667
• | ISBN-10: 0099597667