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You Will Be Safe Here
- Narrated by: Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Publisher's Summary
An Observer, Financial Times and Guardian Pick for 2019.
The brilliant debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me.
South Africa, 1901, the height of the second Boer War. 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.
Johannesburg, 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.
You Will Be Safe Here is a deeply moving novel of connected parts. Inspired by real events, it uncovers a hidden colonial history and present-day darkness while exploring our capacity for cruelty and kindness.
What the critics say
"Powerful." (Maggie O'Farrell)
"Devastating." (Garth Greenwell)
"Beautiful." (Jojo Moyes)