Dear Thief

<p><strong>From acclaimed Booker Prize Winner Orange Prize and <em>Guardian</em> First Book Award finalist Samantha Harvey a stunning novel of female friendship betrayal and revenge</strong></p><p>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 <em>Dear Thief</em>.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><em>Dear Thief</em> 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.</p><p>While I write my spare hand might be doing anything for all you know; it might be driving a pin into your voodoo stomach.</p><p><em>Dear Thief</em> is a rare novel that traverses the human heart in a striking and indelible way.</p>