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The Safekeep

by Yael Van Der Wouden
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language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, May of 2024 ‧
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Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction

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.

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 — I was utterly blown away. - Miranda Cowley Heller

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

Haunting and exquisitely poignant - Claire Fuller

Moving, unnerving and deeply sexy - Tracy Chevalier, author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

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 strange, dream-like and troubling book, as haunting as the history it examines. Yael Van der Wouden is an extraordinarily powerful writer: it's hard to believe this can be her first book. - Cressida Connolly, author of BAD RELATIONS and AFTER THE PARTY

A beautiful book. Incredibly well-observed, surprising, and deeply textured. - Emma Healey, author of ELIZABETH IS MISSING

The Safekeep is thrilling: a riveting historical reconciliation and an impossible yet inevitable love story. Superbly wrought—serious, elegant, sexy, devastating. - Julia May Jonas, author of VLADIMIR

This is a stealthy, simmering novel about complicity and the lies we live by - Clare Pollard

I loved this engrossing, claustrophobic debut novel, the best I've read so far this year. You'll be hearing a lot more about this. - Tom Rowley

The Safekeep

by Yael Van Der Wouden

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241652305
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: May of 2024
Language: English
Dimensions: 137 x 207 x 21 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Romance
EAN: 9780241652305

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Yael Van Der Wouden

Yael van der Wouden é escritora e professora. Dá aulas de escrita criativa e literatura comparada nos Países Baixos.
O seu ensaio sobre a identidade holandesa e judiaísmo, On (Not) Reading Anne Frank, teve uma menção honrosa na seleção The Best American Essays 2018. A Guardiã é o seu romance de estreia e vai ser publicado numa dúzia de países.

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