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You Will Be Safe Here

✍ Scribed by Barr, Damian

Book ID
110518505
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
337 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781635573527

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✦ Synopsis

An extraordinary debut that explores **legacies of abuse, redemption, and the strength of the human spiritβ€”**from the Boer Wars in South Africa to brutal wilderness camps for teenage boys.
South Africa, 1901. It is the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old son Fred are forced from their home on Cherry Tree Farm. As the polite invaders welcome them to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp they promise Sarah and Fred that they will be safe there.

  1. Sixteen-year-old Willem is an outsider. Hoping he will become the man she wants him to be, his Ma and her boyfriend force Willem to attend the New Dawn Safari Training Camp where they are proud to make men out of boys. They promise that he will be safe there.

You Will Be Safe Here is a powerful and urgent novel of two connected South African stories. Inspired by real events, it uncovers a hidden colonial history, reveals a dark contemporary secret, and...

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