Book Group meets this evening to discuss The Safekeep the debut novel by Yael van Der Wouden. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024.

It is fifteen years after the Second World War and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routines in her late mother's country home, with not a fork 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 that threatens to unravel all she has ever known.