Once the Deed Is Done: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fic

Once the Deed Is Done: Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fic

The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dark Room and A Boy in Winter\n\n'Seiffert writes short, fast narratives about the big historical events that have shaped our time' The Times\n\nTo be truly alive means having to make choices. To be truly alive is also, quite simply, to love.\n\nNorthern Germany, 1945. Dead of night and dead of winter, a boy hears soldiers and sees strangers - forced labourers - fleeing across the heathland by his small town: shawls and skirts in the snowfall. The end days are close, war brings risk and chance, and Benno is witness to something he barely understands.\n\nPeace brings more soldiers - but English this time - and Red Cross staff officers. Ruth, on her first posting from London, is given charge of a refugee camp on the heathland, crowded with former forced labourers. As ever more keep arriving, she hears whispers, rumours of dark secrets about that snowy night.\n\nThe townspeople close ranks, shutting t.

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