Watch Tanya Reynolds read from Booker Prize 2024-shortlisted ‘The Safekeep’, written by Yael van der Wouden.
The story so far: It’s 15 years since the Second World War and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the conflict is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel’s life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. 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…
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Directed by Sebastian Thiel for Merman.
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