Safehouse

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Safehouse</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a literary political novel set in the shadowlands of the Cold War the Troubles and Britain's uneasy moral compromises.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 1963 Adrienne is a brilliant and influential international relations expert advising both the UK and US governments. Her intellectual authority masks a profound emotional distance at home where her young son Daniel grows up isolated vulnerable and increasingly unsafe. At boarding school he becomes the target of cruelty shaped by prejudice and neglect.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Elsewhere in London Eleanor a depressive university lecturer grieving a violent loss is quietly drawn into the orbit of MI5. Asked to observe a charismatic Irishman suspected of IRA involvement she finds herself entangled in a relationship where love loyalty and deception blur.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Daniel's life intersects with Eleanor's world private griefs collide with political violence and acts of protection come at an unbearable cost. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Safehouse</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explores betrayal and belonging motherhood and moral blindness and the damage done when ideology overrides human responsibility.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Taut compassionate and unsettling </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Safehouse</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> asks what safety really means - and who pays the price for it.</span></p><p></p>