Description
Title: Safekeep, The
Author: van der Wouden, Yael
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06/05/2025
Imprint: PENGUIN
ISBN: 9780241999776
Winner of the Women’s Prize for fiction 2025.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024- An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge
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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