Once the Deed Is DoneThe new novel from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Dark Room and A Boy in Winter 'A complex, intelligent, deeply compassionate novel about the unglamorous aftermath of war . . . A brilliant piece of story telling stubbornly hopeful' ANDREW MILLER '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' PAUL HARDING, Booker prize author of

Gabriel must embark on a journey through New Yorks seedy underbelly

Tom had a lonely upbringing and longed for pencils

Isolated by the nature of the work that brought him to the city in the first place and by his temperament

For two years

Eves always known he did it

discovery can be deadly

Valery is Dr

set between the 1930s and the present day

nobody does it better than 007

splashy juggernaut of a novel

sweeping and delicate

‘Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent’ – Chloe Gong