The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction, LGBT, Adults
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024, RemarkableCompellingFine and tautIndelible The New York Times Mesmerizing and shockingly goodI was utterly blown away. Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace A brilliant debut, as multifaceted as a gem. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Moving, unnerving, and deeply sexy. Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with the Pearl Earring Fans of Patricia Highsmith and Ottessa Moshfeghs Eileen will find much to admire here.Vulture, An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past., A house is a precious thing, It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mothers country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should beled by routi
