Education
She completed the Bath Spa Creative Writing Master of Arts course in 2005, and has also completed a postgraduate course in philosophy and a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing.
(This book is Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Me...)
This book is Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Long listed for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Long listed for the 2015 Jerwood Prize. 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. The thoughtfulness, intensity and sheer beauty of her writing in her first two novels, The Wilderness and All Is Song, brought Samantha Harvey both huge acclaim and many prize shortlistings. Those readers who loved those novels will fall on Dear Thief with relief and delight.
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( From acclaimed Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Awa...)
From acclaimed Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Award finalist Samantha Harvey, a stunning novel of female friendship, betrayal, and revenge "You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy," writes the unnamed narrator of Dear Thief. The thief is Nina, or Butterfly, who disappeared eighteen years earlier and who is being summoned by this letter, this bomb, these recollections, revisions, accusations, and confessions. "Sometimes I imagine, out of sheer playfulness, that I am writing this as a kind of defence for having murdered and buried you under the patio." Dear Thief is a letter to an old friend, a song, a jewel, and a continuously surprising triangular love story. Samantha Harvey writes with a dazzling blend of fury and beauty about the need for human connection and the brutal vulnerability that need exposes. "While I write my spare hand might be doing anything for all you know; it might be driving a pin into your voodoo stomach." Dear Thief is a rare novel that traverses the human heart in a striking and indelible way.
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(Leonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after ...)
Leonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after his father's death. He moves in with his distant brother William and his family, hoping to renew their friendship but learning to drop his expectations of brotherhood. William is a former lecturer and activist who now runs informal meetings with ex-students.
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She completed the Bath Spa Creative Writing Master of Arts course in 2005, and has also completed a postgraduate course in philosophy and a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing.
Her first novel is, a book about the unravelling effect of Alzheimer"s disease. Her second novel,, is a novel about moral and filial duty, and about the choice between questioning and conforming. Her third novel, Dear Thief, is a long letter from a woman to her absent friend, detailing the emotional fallout of a love triangle.
lieutenant was published on 25th September 2014 by Jonathan Cape and was longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Prize for Fiction.
lieutenant is currently on the shortlist for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Granta Magazine and on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.
In 2010 she was named one of the 12 best new British novelists by The Culture Show.
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes (2015) Longlisted for the Baileys Prize for Fiction (2015) Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction (2009) Longlisted for the Manitoba Booker Prize (2009) Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (2009) Winner of the International Medical Association Literature Award (2009) Winner of the Betty Trask Prize (2009).
( From acclaimed Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Awa...)
(Leonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after ...)
(This book is Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Me...)
She is a tutor on the Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and a member of the Academy for the Folio Prize. She is a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.