{"product_id":"9780349014173-once-the-deed-is-done","title":"Once the Deed Is Done","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A crime novel in the sense that TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a crime novel. One in which a whole community is culpable' Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1945. Dead of night and dead of winter; war brings a stranger to the door; a family is tricked into a act of compassion and danger.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Room \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Boy in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Seiffert writes short, fast narratives about the big historical events that have shaped our time' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo be truly alive means having to make choices. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo be truly alive is also, quite simply, to love.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55563214881142,"sku":"9780349014173","price":16.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33977598.jpg?v=1753428297","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780349014173-once-the-deed-is-done","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}