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You Will Be Safe Here

by Damian Barr · 2019

“There is pain on these pages and poetry too. I left this book bruised yet somehow better for it.” – Tayari Jones. “Brutal, haunting, redemptive and...beautiful.” – Jojo Moyes. This extraordinary debut set in South… more

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Above all this the stars shine. Willem pauses for a moment and feels the world turn as he struggles to pick out the Southern Cross among the interstellar static, He's never seen a sky so big or so bright. It's dizzying and he spins slowly to take it all in...
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Researching and writing my novel has taken me to some really dark places. It is when you are in these dark places that you can see: there is always hope, there is always love.
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The news is a never-ending horror movie and nobody knows how it's going to end
Cape Town, so beautiful she was bored hearing about it and would never go just to spite it.
In the water, in the dark. It doesn’t matter whose fingers find whose toes. Nobody can see. The stars are saying nothing.

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

“Brutal, haunting, redemptive and...beautiful.” – Jojo Moyes.

This extraordinary debut set in South Africa reveals legacies of abuse and redemption exploring the extraordinary strength of the human spirit - from the Boer War in 1901 to brutal camps for teenage boys now. There is always darkness but there is always light in it if we just look.

South Africa, 1901 - the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old son Fred are forced from their home on Mulberry Farm by British troops. As the polite invaders welcome them to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp they promise Sarah and Fred that they will be safe there.

2010. Sixteen-year-old Willem is an outsider. Hoping he will become the man she wants him to be, his Ma and her boyfriend send Wil

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2019
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