A review by mazza
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr

5.0

"“You will be safe here” – a phrase which, while it offers so much, is often heavy with false hope and littered with absent promises. It is entirely understandable why Damian Barr decided to title his emotionally charged first novel this, the words first being told to a diarist who is documenting her tremendous ordeal in Boer War concentration camp. Barr’s novel is about that hope, or lack thereof, and the brutality of just what humans can inflict upon one another. It is about connections, those which bind us and the petty differences that set us apart. It is about living with the consequences of society’s actions, and about understanding history, learning about the role our ancestors had to play in such misery."

Full review on STORGY here