[PREORDER] The Safekeep
This is a preorder book, available to order from 25 June to 10 July 2025. Estimated arrival is 2–4 weeks after the preorder period ends (it may arrive sooner!).
You never know what will rise to the surface when someone new steps into your life.
In The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden tells a tense, intimate story about Isabel, a woman who cherishes order and quiet in her secluded Dutch house, until her estranged brother’s girlfriend arrives and disrupts the fragile balance of her world. What begins as small intrusions quickly unearths deeper mysteries and long-buried wounds.
With prose that’s precise, sensual, and brimming with unspoken feeling, this novel explores themes of possession, history, and the aching spaces we inherit from the past. Every corner of Isabel’s house holds something fragile, and every relationship holds a secret waiting to unfold.
The Safekeep reminds us that safety can be an illusion and that the people who unsettle us most may also help us see ourselves clearly at last.
📗 In The Mood For…
Challenging My Views
Compels readers to look closely at family ties and personal histories.
✅ Examines the quiet tensions that build beneath polite surfaces
✅ Asks readers to question who they trust and what they hide
Feeling Grounded
Rich with domestic detail and sharp emotional undercurrents.
✅ Uses the setting—a house filled with personal relics—as a character itself
✅ Balances a sense of intimacy with subtle suspense
📘 Stories About…
Freedom & Constraint
Isabel’s need for control contrasts with a stranger’s unpredictable presence.
✅ Explores what happens when our carefully constructed worlds begin to shift
✅ Highlights the cost of letting someone new—and different—into our guarded hearts
The Unknown or Unseen
Secrets kept in the walls, and in ourselves.
✅ Suggests that true understanding requires facing what we’d rather keep hidden
✅ Treats hidden histories and unresolved emotions as part of the landscape