28th June - Alice Winn introduces Yael van der Wouden

Friday 28th June, 7.30pm
Backstory, 71 Balham High Road, SW12 9AP

One of Backstory's favourite authors, Alice Winn, introduces one of our new favourites, Yael van der Wouden.

Her debut novel, The Safekeep, is set in the conservative Dutch countryside in the early 1960s. A young woman still tends the family home — keeping rigorous inventories of all its contents — years after her mother has died and her siblings have moved out. She is left to keep standards, and her own company. Until, that is, one of her brothers is called away on business and he imposes his new girlfriend on the house.

And so the stage is set for a beguiling, claustrophobic and very fresh summer read. Trust us, you’ll be wanting to talk about it when you put it down.

And who better to talk it through than the author herself, Alice Winn and the Backstory gang?

Tickets available:

Ticket only - £15

Ticket & book (to collect on the night) - £22.50