Booker-longlisted novelist Yael van der Wouden on the catharsis to be found in writing an unlikable character

“I know this will only happen once in my life”

Author InterviewsFeb 23, 2024by Madeleine Feeny

Yael van der Wouden © Roosmarijn Broersen

Dutch-Jewish author Yael van der Wouden wrote her intense, confounding début, The Safekeep, in just six months.

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