Once The Deed Is Done
by Rachel Seiffert
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Pages:
320
Published:
1 Feb 2024
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint
Virago Press
ISBN:
9780349014173
To be truly alive means having to make choicesTo be truly alive is also, quite simply, to love1945. 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.Later when peace finally arrives in their small town on the German Heide, Freya and her sister are grateful. The fighting is over, so are the Nazi times; the labour camp on the town outskirts will surely be closed now.But with peace come soldiers - English this time - and hundreds of new arrivals: more strangers - forced labourers from across the heathland and beyond, all with their own losses and stories, and all housed in a new camp on the site of the old. Among these refugees are children - Janina and Lukas - waiting and waiting for word of their mother.In Freya's home too there is waiting -to be asked about that snowy night; and family secrets, that Freya and her sister must confront. When is an act of kindness an act of betrayal?
$38.00
