Dear Thief - Samantha Harvey

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