You Will Be Safe Here
(Sprache: Englisch)
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEThe stunning and shocking debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me. Set in South Africa You Will Be Safe Here explores legacies of abuse, redemption and the strength of the human spirit
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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEThe stunning and shocking debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me. Set in South Africa You Will Be Safe Here explores legacies of abuse, redemption and the strength of the human spirit
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An Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Irish Times, Irish Independent, Big Issue and Strong Words Pick of the Year'This is a book that tilts the world' STYLIST'A gripping, heartbreaking tale of uncomfortable histories and the resilience of love' GRAHAM NORTON'I want you to read this ... I enjoy a lot of books but few stay with me like this has' PHILIPPA PERRY'Completely gripping and profoundly moving' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'Very beautiful. Only a truly wise and kind person could write such a book' MAX PORTER'Heart-wrenching ... redemptive and full of love' JOJO MOYESA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEThe book that will change the way you see the world. 2010. Sixteen-year-old outsider Willem just wants to be left alone with his books and his dog. Worried he's not turning out right, his ma and her boyfriend send him to New Dawn Safari Training Camp. Here they 'make men out of boys'. Guaranteed.1901. The height of the second Boer War in South Africa. Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe.
Autoren-Porträt von Damian Barr
Barr, DamianDamian 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
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Damian Barr
- 2019, 352 Seiten, Maße: 13,6 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 140888609X
- ISBN-13: 9781408886090
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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