I really need to tell you something

Mensje van Keulen gives a voice to seemingly ordinary men and women who have every reason not to always embrace life as a party.

In 'Ik moet u echt iets hebben' by Mensje van Keulen, seemingly ordinary men and women have their say who have reason enough not to always embrace life as a party. What initially seems like a perfectly ordinary situation ends in the naked truth, sometimes subtly revealed, sometimes delivered as a hammer blow. A woman casually and totally unexpectedly announces at the breakfast table that she wants a divorce, another woman takes revenge on her meddlesome husband by letting his mother's inheritance play a role, the mother of a murderous son makes a surprising appeal to the judge. Mensje van Keulen gives a voice to characters who are not often heard. 'Horror and domesticity': this delicate combination typifies her work (according to Marja Pruis) and that is what the reader of the unparalleled stories in this collection experiences, which also does not shy away from humor.