A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR

From the acclaimed author of The Conviction of Cora Burns, longlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Debut Crown Award

'A poignant story of love, betrayal and impossible moral choices' — Nick Rennison, Sunday Times

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.
'A terrific World War II novel, which deals with complicated matters of love and loyalty when lives are at stake and choices are bleak… Tense and tender, it captures the terrifying frailties of truth and trust in brutal time' — Eithne Farry, Daily Mail
'A gripping wartime thriller, driven by two memorable heroines' - Antonia Senior, The Times

'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

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