Once the Deed Is Done Jill Halfpenny 24 hours to stop the

24 hours to stop the crime of the century

At once a reflection on America's past and present

her isolation melts away

this is a novel about disappointment and yearning

Part silent scream

Once the Deed Is Done Jill Halfpenny 24 hours to stop theThe 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