Dear Thief

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

A hypnotic read about jealousy, nostalgia and how being wronged by a friend can bruise you as badly as a broken heart.

Good Housekeeping

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

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

Indubitably intelligent, Harvey’s prose is also quite simply ravishing.

Telegraph

Harvey’s writing is clever and thoughtful, filled with striking insights and wisdom.

Suzi Feay, Tablet

By far the best thing she’s done.

Gaby Wood, Daily Telegraph

From its opening sentences, this novel of jealousy and friendship holds you in its grip…. Harvey’s prose manages to be both wistful and unpretentious, capturing perfectly the relationship between two women in all its complexity.

Bath Chronicle

Beautiful... Exhilarating... Remarkable

James Wood, New Yorker

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

Compassionate, matter-of-fact, and mysterious about death and its ultimate transforming.

Catherine Taylor, five stars, Telegraph

Harvey handles the most difficult of subjects- ageing and death- with her distinctive brand of mystic pragmatism.

Emma Hadestadt

Atmospheric

Claire Kilroy, Guardian

Dear Thief is one of those quiet and clever books that is about everything and nothing all at once.

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