Fall on Your Knees

Fall on Your Knees is a 1996 novel by Canadian playwright, actor and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald. The novel takes place in late 19th and early 20th centuries and chronicles four generations of the complex Piper Family. It is a story of "inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles." Beginning in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I and ending in New York City, the troubled Piper sisters depend on one another for survival.

Fall on Your Knees
First edition cover
AuthorAnn-Marie MacDonald
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Set in
PublisherKnopf Canada, Simon & Schuster
Publication date
1996
Pages566 (1st edition)
AwardsCommonwealth Writers Prize
ISBN9780394281599
OCLC35035930
WebsitePublisher's website

The book was featured by Oprah's Book Club in 2002. As of 2014, it has been published in 23 territories and translated into 19 languages.

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