Renowned Dutch writer Jan van Mersbergen won the 2014 Dutch Novel of the Year award for The Last Escape. Critics praised the novel on many levels, and a wider audience also liked it. The clean text does not leave much room for excessive emotional outbursts, despite the content, which could easily fall into this category. An extremely sensitive story about how ten-year-old Deedee one day calls her father, who did not even know he had a son. And about the sincere surprise at the first meeting, their relationship and the realization that an ordinary phone call can change our lives forever.