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Samantha Harvey

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in Kent, The United Kingdom

January 01, 1975

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Samantha Harvey has completed postgraduate courses in philosophy and in Creative Writing. In addition to writing, she has traveled extensively and taught in Japan and has lived in Ireland and New Zealand. She recently co-founded an environmental charity and lives in Bath, England.

Her first novel, The Wilderness, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and won the 2009 Betty Trask Prize.

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Average rating: 3.45 · 7,368 ratings · 1,370 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Western Wind 3.41 avg rating — 3,886 ratings — published 2018 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping 3.60 avg rating — 1,171 ratings — published 2020 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Thief 3.45 avg rating — 991 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wilderness 3.36 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 2008 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Orbital 3.83 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Is Song 3.02 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skylines by Samantha Harvey, Maaza Mengiste, Suzanne Joinson 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making The Decent Life: The Real Life Story of Making a Decent Life Out of a Problem 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“To write fiction you have to engage in organised fraud, the laundering of experience into the offshore haven of words.”
― Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping

tags: fiction, writing

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“This is what writing does to you, it seems, it turns objects that used to be just things in your life into things that must be described, and at the same time makes them feel increasingly indescribable.”
― Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief

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“If the mind is a cacophony, the subconscious is silent theatre.”
― Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping

tags: mind, subsconscious

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