(Contact, 1991, 143 pagina's)

In one of Vonne van der Meer’s short stories, De oude vrouw en de jonge man, ‘The Old Woman and the Young Man’, a Dutch woman celebrates her seventieth birthday alone in an outdoor cafe in Madrid. ‘When she was alone she had no age:’ A handsome young Spaniard who tries to sell her two tickets for a bullfight offers to accompany her himself when he learns that she is alone.

(Contact, 1999, 206 pagina's)

In what is by now the extensive oeuvre of Vonne van der Meer, islands occupy a place of prominence. Her characters visit islands in search of peace and quiet, and are then compelled by the isolation to reflect on their lives. On an island, we learn from her new book, everything happens for the first time. Eilandgasten takes place in a holiday house on an island off the coast of Holland called Vlieland. The scheme of the novel, which is brilliant in its simplicity, enables the author to incorporate six very different stories, or mini-dramas. Each chapter introduces a new tenant or tenants; the holiday house is the principal thread that runs through them.

(Contact, 2001, 203 pagina's)

In her successful novel Eilandgasten (Island Guests), Vonne van der Meer had her characters arriving at a holiday home on the Dutch island of Vlieland, where their stories were set: six different stories, but all with a common location. The idea of telling the stories of a cottage’s guests is too good to be exhausted after just one book. After all, an island is an island; you cannot leave just like that.

(Contact, 2004, 176 pagina's)

In Ik verbind u door laat Vonne van der Meer zien dat kleine gebeurtenissen grote gevolgen kunnen hebben. Het verhaal speelt zich af op 10 september 2002, een dag voor de eerste herdenking van de aanslagen in New York. In vogelvlucht volgt ze een groot aantal verschillende personages, die met elkaar worden verbonden door het chagrijn dat ze aan elkaar doorgeven.

(Contact, 2009, 168 pagina's)

In de subtiele manier waarop Vonne van der Meer de kleine fricties in het menselijk verkeer van alledag laat zien, verkeert zij in het Nederlands taalgebied op eenzame hoogte. In Zondagavond is er weliswaar meer dan in haar andere werk sprake van een ‘geheim’ dat iemand al te lang met zich meetorst, maar ook een zogeheten plotdriven verhaal is bij haar in veilige, want intelligente, handen.

(Atlas Contact, 2013, 218 pagina's)

Vonne van der Meer came to fame with a series of successful and award-winning novels set on the holiday island of Vlieland. Her great strength lies in describing the lives of ordinary people who hide their inner struggles beneath a tranquil surface. This is no less true of The Narrow Path of Love, the story of two couples, one of which lost a child years earlier.

(Atlas Contact, 2019, 240 pagina's)

At the end of the 1950s, the young Jutka Horvath finds a woman’s handbag and returns it to its rightful owner. As a reward, she receives a book about a boy who loses his plastic fish only to find it back years later. From then on, Jutka makes it her mission to find lost items and return them to their owners. She becomes the ‘findling’.

(Atlas Contact, 2022, 108 pagina's)

A young woman ends up in a wheel­chair due to a manufacturing defect in her skis. Her lawyer pursues the highest possible compensation. It’s a straightforward conceit that Vonne van der Meer takes into an unexpected direction. In Personal Injury, the way we see ourself clashes with the view of outsiders. Who or what determines the value of an unlived life?