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Once the Deed Is Done
` Exploring the pain and confusion of displaced persons at the end of the Second World war, which hardly any novels have done yet. I read with great pleasure'Tim Pears I love that her novels take me to unexplored places and times' Linda Grant`Such a beautiful and powerful book, emotional yet unsentimental. Rachel Seiffert's focus on a small, rural town in North Germany, from Burgermeister to abandoned baby unforgettably reminds us of the cost of war' Lucy Jago `Brilliant piece of story-telling -- stubbornly hopeful' Andrew MillerNorthern 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.Peace 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.The 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.
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UNTITLED RACHEL SEIFFERT 2
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Once the Deed Is Done
The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dark Room and A Boy in Winter'Complex, intelligent, deeply compassionate . . . A brilliant piece of story-telling' ANDREW MILLER, Booker Prize-longlisted author of THE LAND IN WINTER'This entire novel reverberates in ways that only haunt the reader more and more deeply, long after its last page' PAUL HARDING, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of THIS OTHER EDEN'Searingly beautiful . . . powerful . . . Seiffert's writing beautifully captures this devastating moment of history' SPECTATORTo be truly alive means having to make choices. To be truly alive is also, quite simply, to love.Northern 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.Peace 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.The 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.'Marvellous . . . a wide-ranging novel that beautifully balances the tumultuous reach of history with the everyday concerns of ordinary people' DAILY MAIL'I read Once the Deed Is Done with great pleasure . . . Great characters taking us deep into the physical challenges and moral quandaries of the time' TIM PEARS, author of THE WEST COUNTRY trilogy'Panoramic . . . this fine novel investigates the fate of displaced people in the hazardous, dirty backwash of the second world war' GUARDIAN'The patron saint of this gripping novel is Bertolt Brecht. This is a fascinating novel by one of our very best writers' JEWISH CHRONICLE
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The Walk Home
Stevie hasn't set foot in his home town for years, and he can't decide whether to let his family-what's left of them, anyway-know he's back. He wasn't the first to cut and run-in their own ways, his mother, his father, and his uncle all fled before he did-but should he be the first to come home? Moving between Stevie's life as a construction worker in present-day Glasgow and the story of his parents when they were young, The Walk Home is a heartbreakingly powerful novel about the risks of love, and the madness and betrayals that can split a family. Gripping, haunting and, ultimately, hopeful, here is a piercingly honest story about the journey home-and the people there waiting for you.
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Field Study
Rachel Seiffert author of The Dark Room powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a local woman to the family aided by an enemy in 'The Crossing' to the old man weighing his regrets in 'Francis John Jones 1924 -' Seiffert's acclaimed refined prose movingly captures the lives of her characters in their most essential secret moments.A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year.
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The Dark Room
The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who in 1945 guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Allies; and, fifty years later, Micha, a young teacher obsessed with what his loving grandfather did in the war, struggling to deal with the past of his family and his country.
€ 21,50