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Book SynopsisSamantha Harvey is the author of the novels
Orbital,
The Wilderness,
All is Song,
Dear Thief and
The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction,
The Shapeless Unease:
A Year of Not Sleeping.
Orbital was the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, and her other work has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian
First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize.
The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
Trade ReviewBrave and intelligent...a mesmerising work * Independent *
A stunning composition of human fragility and intensity * Guardian *
An extraordinary dramatisation of a mind in the process of disintegration ... Brilliant - read it now, before it scoops up all the prizes * The Times *
Touches a resounding chord of melancholy. The author, whose debut this is, is very talented * Evening Standard *
This is a finely written ode to memory, identity and love * Financial Times *
