Simon Mawer
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A dwarf searches for the cause of his affliction. He is Benedict Lambert, whom most people assume to be a circus artist. In fact, he is a famous geneticist, working to find the elusive DNA code that made him a dwarf. His girlfriend loves his heart but is repulsed by his body.
2) Tightrope
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"As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely...