The Safekeep
Dutch novelist, born 1987. Won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2025.
The Safekeep is a 2024 novel by Yael van der Wouden. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2025.
In family saga, LGBTQ+
On 3 of the 11 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Yael van der Wouden
- First published
- 2024
- Length
- 272 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize shortlist, 2024
- Women's Prize for Fiction winner, 2025
- Walter Scott Prize shortlist, 2025
- Genre
- Literary fiction, LGBTQ+, Love story, Family saga
Is The Safekeep worth reading?
3 of the 11 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Booker Prize.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2024) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2025) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2025) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of The Safekeep
The edition we link to is the Penguin paperback (2025), 272 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin (paperback, 2025)
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780241999776
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Safekeep
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 58% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work