Once the Deed Is DoneThe new novel from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Dark Room and A Boy in Winter 'Seiffert writes short, fast narratives about the big historical events that have shaped our time' The Times To 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