Dear thief

Harvey, S (2014) Dear thief. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224101721

Official URL: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1099203/dear-thief...

Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
UoA: English Literature & Language
Date Deposited: 24 Jun 2015 10:50
Last Modified: 06 Jan 2022 20:12
URI / Page ID: https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/6006
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