The Safekeep

Name: The Safekeep
SKU: 9780241652305
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By Yael van der Wouden

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024

An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge – for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan’s Atonement.

It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother’s country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel’s doorstep – as a guest, there to stay for the season…

In the sweltering heat of summer, Isabel’s desperate need for control reaches boiling point. What happens between the two women leads to a revelation which threatens to unravel all she has ever known.

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SKU: 9780241652305 Categories: Historical Fiction, LGBTQ, Literature & Fiction, Romance

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“Surprising, chilling, and electric. The Safekeep is a simply fantastic work of literature.” ― Alice Winn, bestselling author of IN MEMORIAM

“The Safekeep is a dream of a novel ― mesmerizing and shockingly good ― it lulls you with the lyrical beauty of its words and then slams you awake with its raw passion and rage. Part silent scream, part breathless love story.” ― Miranda Cowley Heller, bestselling author of THE PAPER PALACE

“Haunting and exquisitely poignant.” ― Claire Fuller

“Moving, unnerving and deeply sexy.” ― Tracy Chevalier, author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

“The story is resolved in such a bold and tender way that it becomes not merely clever, but indelible.” ― New York Times

“An impressive debut; I already look forward to Van der Wouden’s next.” ― Guardian

“The Safekeep is a beautiful book, highly charged, tense, shocking and heartbreaking in equal measure.…One of those rare books that feels as if it’s been there all along, waiting to be given a voice. And what a voice this is.” ― Rachel Joyce

“[A] mesmerizing debut….A novel of redemption as much as revenge, The Safekeep has the pacing and twists of a thriller.” ― Bookpage

“Tantalizing… fans of Patricia Highsmith and Ottesa Moshfegh’s Eileen will find much to admire here.” ― Vulture

“An astonishingly skillful debut, The Safekeep manages the rare trick of being both gripping and intimate. A twisting, elegant, intriguing story about the secrets we hide in our homes and hearts – and how it only takes one person to unlock the past.” ― Joanna Quinn, bestselling author of THE WHALEBONE THEATRE

About the Author

Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, “On (Not) Reading Anne Frank”, has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. The Safekeep is her debut novel and was acquired in hotly-contested nine-way auctions in both the UK and the US. Rights have sold in a further twelve countries. In 2024 it was longlisted for the Booker Prize.