The Safekeep

'A simply fantastic work of literature'
Alice Winn
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 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.