Client details
Samantha Harvey
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Samantha Harvey was born in England in 1975. She has lived in Ireland, New Zealand and Japan writing, travelling and teaching, and in recent years has co-founded an environmental charity alongside her novel writing. She has a masters degree in Philosophy and completed with distinction the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA course in 2005. THE WILDERNESS is her first novel and has already garnered considerable acclaim, winning the Betty Trask Prize and appearing on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. Praise for THE WILDERNESS (2010): 'Harvey uses her precise and unostentatious style to full effect.' Times Literary Supplement ' ... a piece of literature seamlessly woven from extremely controlled prose, and peppered with vivid images that are recalled with haiku-like clarity.' The Observer 'This looping personal history has a mesmerising intensity.' The Telegraph |
The Wilderness
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| THE WILDERNESS 2010 Jonathan Cape | This astonishing debut novel depicts the desperate struggle of Jake, an Alzheimer''s sufferer, to piece together his few remaining memories. He has many important questions left to answer, but as the disease takes hold and his identity slips away, the concrete facts of his past life become increasingly remote. Can anything be salvaged, in any form, from his deteriorating mind? Winner of the Betty Trask Prize. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Award. |
