<p>From acclaimed Orange Prize and <em>Guardian</em> First Book Award finalist Samantha Harvey, a stunning novel of female friendship, betrayal, and revenge</p><p>&quot;You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy,&quot; writes the unnamed narrator of<em>Dear Thief</em>.</p><p>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.</p><p>&quot;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.&quot;</p><p><em>Dear Thief</em> 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.</p><p>&quot;While I write my spare hand might be doing anything for all you know; it might be driving a pin into your voodoo stomach.&quot;</p><p><em>Dear Thief</em> is a rare novel that traverses the human heart in a striking and indelible way.</p>