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The Safekeep

Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025

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The Safekeep

Yazan: Yael van der Wouden
Seslendiren: Saskia Maarleveld, Stina Nielsen
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025
LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025

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.

'A thrilling, razor-sharp, perfectly plotted debut novel' Sunday Times

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

'A brave and thrilling debut about facing up to the truth of history, and to one's own desires… Van der Wouden brings stunning power and control to her page-turner about trauma and repression' Justine Jordan, Booker Prize Judge 2024

©2024 Yael van der Wouden (P)2024 Penguin Audio

 Genre Fiction LGBTQIA+ İçerik Üreticileri Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Psychological Women's Fiction World Literature Samimi Savaş
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I realise I’m quite late to this party but, my god, what a book. It’s an incredible novel, delicate yet tough, and pitted with narrative landmines. It blew me away. I haven’t been as enthralled by a novel for a long time. I have immediately insisted that everyone I know reads it. (Maggie O'Farrell)
The Safekeep seeped into my subconscious, took hold and stayed inside me even after I’d finished reading it. Breathtaking prose, febrile suspense and exceptional plot twist towards the end. So many wonderful novels out there, but this one really does stand out (Bernardine Evaristo)
Surprising, chilling, and electric. The Safekeep is a simply fantastic work of literature. (Alice Winn, bestselling author of IN MEMORIAM)
Yael van der Wouden's compelling , clever novel features several irresistible literary devices. A grand old house. A festering family secret. The shadow of the second world war. And plenty of erotic tension , bringing heat to a story that interrogates dark themes of antisemitism, displacement and inherited trauma...The thrill of Van der Wouden's sly book is that it feels both juicy and deeply important
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
What a staggering book. Best thing I’ve read in quite a while (Patrick Radden Keefe)
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I couldn't warm enough to the two central women so the wonderfully written sensuality and tensions in their relationship didn't always work for me. Which was a shame. It's not essential to like protagonists but I discovered this has more importance for me than I realised.

Nonetheless this is a highly original and powerful story which deals with some overlooked historical injustices, that deserve bringing to light.

The narration was quite challenging for me. The narrator has a lovely reading voice but I frequently had to go back to relisten to a detail that seemed to have been lost in either her performance or the sound editing.

Don't let these things put you off. This book deserves to be heard - or read.

A beautifully crafted book but ...

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The whole book felt flat one dimensional. The author used the same adjectives over and over again. It was an uncomfortable book which I guess was what she was trying to achieve. Tired of the narrators breathy voice.

One dimensional

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I've about done holocaust-related literature but this one was a worthwhile exception, especially as that aspect of the tale was slowly, delicately unveiled after being obliquely hinted at early in the narrative. Finally van der Wouden points the accusatory finger directly at her Dutch compatriots, all the more effectively as she does it long after she has engaged our sympathies with the characters. Did you know - I didn't - that after the war the Red Cross from all the allied nations retrieved and rehabilitated their occupants of the camps? All except the Dutch, who left them there long after the others were gone. Perhaps this casts light on the recent emergence of the hard right as a power in Dutch politics. But even without this issue, this story towers above its contemporaries for the brilliance of its characterisations, the punch of its narrative. Simply brilliant. Narration likewise.

Richly gruelling. Fabulous.

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Slow at the beginning. Characters off. But developed. I didn’t know about the Dutch after the war

Wonderful Story

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The voice artist- hard to listen to as it was so irritating. Have decided to buy a hardcopy of the book to continue

Well written, detailed characterisations

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