My, My, My
We say ‘my shoe’ and ‘my lover,’ but the sense of possession isn’t at all the same, or isn’t it, maybe a little? Oh, the heaven and hell wrought by the casual use of a pronoun.
Samantha Harvey is the author of three novels, the most recent of which is Dear Thief, which Michael Cunningham called a “novel of profound beauty.” She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.