The Birds Fall Down: A Novel

By: Rebecca West

SYNOPSIS: "Laura Rowan is a half-English girl of eighteen whose father is an M.P. and whose grandfather is an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris, still passionately loyal to his Tsar. While Laura is on a train journey with him in northern France, the grandfather is confronted by the Tsar's enemy, a terrorist searching for the truth about an apparent double spy. This confrontation and the jeopardy in which it puts Laura precipitate a series of dramatic events in which she is deeply involved. The cold-blooded murder toward which it all leads is a master stroke of irony."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000JDXZVY
• ISBN13: 9781122032681
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Viking,
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.9" x 7.9"