[8][better source needed] Her third novel, Dear Thief, is a long letter from a woman to her absent friend, detailing the emotional fallout of a love triangle.

Harvey's fourth novel, The Western Wind, about a priest in fifteenth-century Somerset, was published in March 2018.

[12]It takes place on a space station over one day of low earth orbits, and was described by Mark Haddon as "one of the most beautiful novels I have read in a very long time".

[15] She was a member of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and has held writing fellowships at MacDowell in the US, Hawthornden in Scotland,[16] and the Santa Maddalena Foundation in Italy.

[17] She teaches regularly for Arvon Foundation, and runs writing courses annually in Spain with the author Emma Hooper.

[19] Harvey's novels have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Norwegian, Portuguese and Romanian.