Damian Barr

eBook, ePUB

You Will Be Safe Here (eBook, ePUB)

One of the most-anticipated debut novels of 2019

Beschreibung

An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Sunday Times South Africa, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year An Irish Times and The Times Summer Reading Pick Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the London Magazine Debut Fiction Prize 2020 Longlisted for HWA Debut Crown 2020 'Beautifully written and emotionally devastating' Daily Mail A beautiful and heart-breaking story set in South Africa where two mothers - a century apart - must fight for their sons, unaware their fates are inextricably linked. Orange Free State, 1901. At the height of the Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old son Fred can only watch as the British burn their farm. The polite invaders cart them off to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp promising you will be safe here. Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old Willem is an outsider who just wants to be left alone with his Harry Potter books and Britney, his beloved pug. Worried he's turning out soft, his Ma and her new boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Camp, where they 'make men out of boys.' Guaranteed. The red earth of the veldt keeps countless secrets whether beaten by the blistering sun or stretching out beneath starlit stillness. But no secret can stay buried forever.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 0.75MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Damian Barr is an award-winning writer and columnist. Maggie & Me, his memoir about comingof age and coming out in Thatcher's Britain, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year, and wonthe Paddy Power Political Books 'Satire' Award and Stonewall Writer of the YearAward. Damian writes columns for the BigIssue and High Life and oftenappears on BBC Radio 4. He is creator and host of his own Literary Salon that premieres work from established and emerging writers. You Will Be Safe Here is his debut novel. Damian Barr lives in Brighton.

@Damian_Barr

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408886106
• Artikelnr.: 55418210

Rezensionen

Powerful MAGGIE O'FARRELL

There is pain on these pages and poetry too. I left this book bruised yet somehow better for it