Operation Wandering Soul

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**’If you have children or will have children, if you know children or can remember being a child, dare to read *Operation Wandering Soul* … it is bedtime reading for the future’ *USA TODAY*

‘Powers’ prose soars like the most magnificent of choirs’ *WASHINGTON POST*

‘The most intellectually stimulating novelist at work in the English language today’ *DAILY TELEGRAPH***

In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children gather, their lives brightened only by the power of imagination. The surrogate parents of this group – Kraft, a tired, overworked surgical resident, and Espera, a dedicated therapist – are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.

Using the boundless reach of imagination, *Operation Wandering Soul* is a novel that celebrates the wonder of childhood. Both social indictment and emotional account of intimate needs, it asks how we might keep alive a little longer the enduring magic of childhood dreams.

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