Dear Thief

A novel about female friendship, betrayal and imagination from the prize-winning author of ‘The Wilderness’ and ‘All Is Song’, and now long-listed for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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. Answering a question asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that calls up a shared past both women have preferred to forget.