Walking turn-of-the-century Amsterdam with her loyal dog Bibi,
Femke is many things: a drifter who spends much of her time in a
drug-ridden park; a daughter of the colonial Dutch; a magnetic
personality prone to petit mal seizures and destructive
relationships; a liar. This is her story. After being drawn into
the unsettling world of a British filmmaker and his wife, she meets
and befriends an ageing poet, Michiel de Koning, and tries to nurse
him back to health. As their friendship develops, De Koning's
mysterious past - involving the poet and murderer Gerrit Achterberg
- leads Femke on a journey to discover the identity of De Koning's
great love and inspiration, 'M'. This pursuit of the truth reveals
the uncertainties of her own past in a world of unreliable
listeners. Written with a clear poetic sensibility and strong
echoes of European Modernism, Femke is a celebration of the stories
we tell ourselves and one another, the elusiveness of our fleeting
connections, and the complex power dynamics between poet and muse.
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