was "a studiously researched fantasy about the past that stages an almost self-annihilating debate about reconstruction". Awards 2012 Miles Franklin Award 2012 Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA), Book of the Year 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award 2012 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Literary Fiction References 2011 Australian novels Novels about Nazi Germany Novels set in London Miles Franklin Award-winning works Penguin Books books