He also hosts events and podcasts at Damian Barr's Literary Salon Novelists Simon Cleary ( The War Artist) and Emma Ashmere ( The Floating Garden) join Kate and Cassie to review these books, and Scottish writer Damian Barr reveals the books that have influenced him.Īnd as always, keep scrolling for a list of all the books mentioned and music played on the show, right at the bottom of this page.ĭamian Barr is a Scottish writer and columnist whose books include the memoir Maggie and Me and, now, the novel You Will Be Safe Here (Bloomsbury).
Seductive and moving, this is a novel about marriage, love, raw sexuality, and the ways in which desire and betrayal CA reverberate endlessly throughout our lives.Books within books on this week's edition of the Bookshelf: an invented diary from 1900 in Damian Barr's You Will Be Safe Here, three mysterious manuscripts bound together in Alex Landragin's Crossings, and a whiff of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in Chip Cheek's Cape May. And as they sneak into the vaCAt summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink an enormous amount of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with irrevocable consequences. While they discover new truths in each other and in their marriage, the empty beach town becomes their playground. Slowly, agonizingly, these deeply-flawed, profoundly human characters pull Henry and Effie out of themselves and expose them to a side of desire they never expected. Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away Max, a wealthy playboy and Claras lover and Alma, Maxs aloof, mysterious, and evocative half-sister, to whom Henry is irresistibly drawn. But before they leave, they encounter their glamorous, sensual neighbors and become swept up by their drama. The abandoned homes and desolate beaches make them shy of each other, and, isolated in their new marriage, they decide to cut their trip short. Arriving for their honeymoon in Cape May, New Jersey, during the off season, Henry and Effie are startled to find the beach town deserted. In this erotic and intimate debut novel, a naïve southern couple is exposed to a group of raucous, debauched urbanites.
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