Get Down There And Die
by Jennifer Lash
Harvester Press, 4.50 pounds
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A Review by Peter Tinniswood
The Times
10 January 1977
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              Jennifer Lash has produced one of the strangest and most intriguing novels to have come my way for a very long time.

            Get Down There And Die is a story about fear.  It's the story of obsessions and terrors, which starts with a young man catching the eyes of another man in a London tube station.

            He sees there a quality of fear, which strings him to the heart of his soul.  His search for the man and the source of that fear takes him from London to Ireland.

            The mood of menace is most beautifully captured, maintained and then heightened as this short book progresses.  There is a taut quality to the dialogue and a twisting, darting plot that grips constantly.

            There is one small grouse, however.  The book is written in the present tense and at times it comes terribly close to the pretentious and the arch.

             Miss Lash just about gets away with it, because the book is short enough to cope with it and because the rhythm of her story line can maintain it.

              Get Down There And Die is a haunting little novel by an exceptionally interesting writer.