# The Safekeep

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- Book: [The Safekeep](https://www.bookquiver.com/yael-van-der-wouden/the-safekeep) ([The Safekeep.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/yael-van-der-wouden/the-safekeep.md))
- Authors: [Yael van der Wouden](https://www.bookquiver.com/yael-van-der-wouden)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-977-6
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2025-06-12
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...