Carolyn Kirby, the author of When We Fall will be taking questions and talking about her new book this evening at a  joint event hosted by CTTV and Oldcastle Book Club.

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 see 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 the WWII war atrocity that became known as the Katyn Massacre, When We Fall is a moving story of three lives forever altered by one fatal choice.

Carolyn Kirby's debut novel The Conviction of Cora Burns was begun on a writing course at Faber Academy and went on to win the Bluepencilagency Award for unpublished novels. Published in March 2019 by No Exit Press the UK and Dzanc Books in North America, the novel has been longlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Debut Crown Award and has been getting praise from reviewers and journalists. The Sunday Mirror called it; 'A great historical novel with bite,' while it was chosen by The Times as an historical fiction book of the month.

Before being a full-time writer, Carolyn worked in social housing and as a teacher. She has two grown-up daughters and lives with her husband in Oxfordshire.

Print and ebook copies of When We Fall are available from the publisher No Exit Press by clicking here

When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby - Interview with Barry Forshaw