The Safekeep – Yael van der Wouden

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.

 

Winner of the Women’s Prize 2025

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

 

Details

Format: Paperback
Aantal pagina’s: 272