I Read The Safe Keep by Yael van der Wouden - Here’s Why You Should Too

Let me start by confessing a cardinal reading sin: I read this book in the pool. Not once, not twice - I floated, clung to the ledge, and kept reading through pruned fingers. It was just that good. 

The Safe Keep by Yael van der Wouden is a slow-burn, psychologically loaded novel that deserves a place on your reading list - particularly if you’re a fan of postwar fiction, and queer tension.

With a conflicted unreliable narrator, this book is the ultimate trifecta. Chilling, steamy, and heart-wrenching. 

The post-World War II setting is richly researched, and vividly rendered - a true looking glass into a fractured, haunted Europe, still reeling from war.

Void of tidy romance, or clean cut redemption arcs, this novel is painful, and worth every page. 

WLW suspense. Historical trauma. Psychological suspense. What more could you want?