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Brutish Brits: You Will Be Safe Here, by Damian Barr, reviewed

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

Damian Barr explains the upsetting genesis of his impressive debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here, in his acknowledgements:

This story began with a picture of a boy in a newspaper. That boy was Raymond Buys and he’d been killed in a camp not unlike New Dawn. He was just 15.

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