# Dear Thief

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- Book: [Dear Thief](https://www.bookquiver.com/samantha-harvey/dear-thief) ([Dear Thief.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/samantha-harvey/dear-thief.md))
- Authors: [Samantha Harvey](https://www.bookquiver.com/samantha-harvey)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9959-766-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2025-10-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL 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. ‘A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate’ TESSA HADLEY ‘Ravishing… Harvey offers an incandescent vision of hope and acceptance’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH