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…
When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby is published in paperback on 7 May, 2020, to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day, and is based on the Second World War atrocity of the Katyn massacre.
Read Carolyn’s feature about the massacre and how it inspired her novel.
