{"product_id":"once-the-deed-is-done","title":"Once the Deed Is Done","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Dark Room\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA Boy in Winter\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A complex, intelligent, deeply compassionate novel about the unglamorous aftermath of war . . . A brilliant piece of story-telling - stubbornly hopeful'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eANDREW MILLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Prose that is so lucid, so understated . . . this entire novel reverberates in ways that only haunt the reader more and more deeply, long after its last page'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePAUL HARDING, Booker prize author of THIS OTHER EDEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'I love that her novels take me to unexplored places and times . . . she has brought to life a complex interaction between survivors on both sides with humanity and compassion'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLINDA GRANT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTo be truly alive means having to make choices.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTo be truly alive is also, quite simply, to love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorthern 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeace 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe townspeople close ranks, shutting their mouths and minds to the winter's events, but the town children are curious about the refugees on their doorstep, and Benno can't carry his secret alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'I read\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOnce the Deed Is Done\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewith great pleasure . . . Great characters taking us deep into the physical challenges and moral quandaries of the time'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTIM PEARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Such a beautiful and powerful book, emotional yet unsentimental . . . unforgettably reminds us of the cost of war'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLUCY JAGO\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54923173921141,"sku":"9780349014166","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/34b0201c-0a7f-48ff-aa38-dbbdbc5c727e.jpg?v=1736854592","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/once-the-deed-is-done","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}