Lighthouse

You Will Be Safe Here

- Damian Barr

( Paperback )

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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

Completely gripping and profoundly moving – you care for every character. Each of the very different stories is deeply affecting and they’re woven together in such unexpected and powerful ways. Barr handles the most difficult material with the lightest touch – Maggie O’Farrell

1. 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.

2. 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.