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

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 -- 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 - Guardian

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] mesmerizing debut....A n