Once the Deed Is Done Wren & Rook Congress enacts a complex auditing

Congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to un-waste your youth

My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window

When Lesley is sent to Venice to interview world-renowned violinist Paulo Levi on his fiftieth birthday

The Secret of Snittington Hall and Melvin the Mole

and the British Ambassador becomes the owner of a priceless work of art

Once the Deed Is Done Wren & Rook Congress enacts a complex auditingThe 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