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West, Rebecca [Cecily Isabel Fairfield]

The Birds Fall Down

World Books, 1967

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Year of publication
1967
Place of printing
London
Author
West, Rebecca [Cecily Isabel Fairfield]
Publishers
World Books
Edition
Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Keyword
Russian Revolution Fiction
Cover description
Near Fine
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

One afternoon, in early summer, eighteen-year-old Laura Rowan sits on the garden steps of her house embroidering a handkerchief. She overhears a conversation between her father, an English Member of Parliament, and her mother, Tania, the daughter of an exiled Russian royalist. Tania's decision to take Laura to Paris to visit her grandfather, Count Nikilai Diakonov, means that Laura will unwittingly become a witness to the momentous events leading up to the Russian Revolution.Through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and an historical novel.