From the acclaimed author of The Conviction of Cora Burns, longlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Debut Crown Award
England, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can't get him out of her mind.
In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German officers in her father's guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for the Polish resistance. Mourning her lover, Stefan, who was captured by the Soviets at the start of the war, Ewa is shocked to him on the street one day.
Haunted by a terrible choice he made in captivity, Stefan asks Vee and Ewa to help him expose one of the darkest secrets of the war. But it is not clear where everyone's loyalties lie until they are tested...
Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day and based on WWII war atrocity the Katyn massacre, When We Fall is a moving story of three lives forever altered by one fatal choice.
'Historical fiction at its finest' - Howard Linskey
'An engaging and elegantly written novel on the grim realities of war, and the moral choices that can result. Highly recommended' - Roger Moorhouse
'In a story where loyalties are called into question, she kept me guessing to the final page' - Anita Frank, author of The Lost Ones
'A vivid novel that stays with you long after you reach the final page... told in breathless present tense' - Fiona Erskine, author of The Chemical Detective
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Praise for The Conviction of Cora Burns
'Kirby writes with skill and gusto' - Times
'A great historical novel' - Sunday Mirror
'This richly woven Gothic tale is an atmospheric treat' - heat
