PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Samantha Harvey was born in England in 1975. Her first novel, The Wilderness, won the Betty Trask Prize, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and for the Guardian First Book Prize. Her second novel, All is Song, was published in 2012.
A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate. -- Tessa Hadley Harvey has struck gold... Perhaps because it is so intimate, so honest, so raw, Dear Thief provokes you to think about life, and Life, and your own life. -- Claire Kilroy Guardian Beautiful... Exhilarating... Remarkable -- James Wood New Yorker Compassionate, matter-of-fact and mysterious about death and its ultimate transforming... Harvey offers an incandescent vision of hope and acceptance. -- Catherine Taylor Sunday Telegraph A quiet, unusual book, full of sad truths. I loved this epistolary novel of friendship, betrayal and forgiveness. -- Paula Hawkins, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Guardian Harvey's writing is stunning: an effortless spool that winds back the layers... Brilliant. -- Kate Saunders The Times Singular and haunting. -- Stephanie Cross Daily Mail
