Samantha Harvey was born in England in 1975. She has lived in Ireland, New Zealand and Japan writing, travelling and teaching, and in recent years has co-founded an environmental charity alongside her novel writing. She completed with distinction the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA course in 2005, where she was shortlisted for the PFD prize. The Wilderness is her first novel.
This is a finely written ode to memory, identity and love * Financial Times * Touches a resounding chord of melancholy. The author, whose debut this is, is very talented * Evening Standard * An extraordinary dramatisation of a mind in the process of disintegration ... Brilliant - read it now, before it scoops up all the prizes * The Times * A stunning composition of human fragility and intensity * Guardian * Brave and intelligent...a mesmerising work * Independent *