The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia religion and human
entanglements. First published in 1965 it tells the story of hapless scooter-riding young
research student Adam Appleby who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted -
not least by the fact that as Catholics in the 1960s he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican
roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
