This is my second reading of Ann-Marie MacDonald's historical novel Fall On Your Knees and I enjoyed the page turner just as much as the first time. The story is basically a saga of the Piper family living in New Waterford, a small village in Cape Breton Island during the early part of the 20th cent...
Lily stays sitting. “Frances. What if Ambrose is the Devil?” “He’s not the Devil. I know who the Devil is and it isn’t Ambrose.” “Who’s the Devil?” Frances crouches down as if she were talking to Trixie. “That’s something I’ll never tell you, Lily, no matter how old you get to be, because the Devil ...
It is rather often that a book is described as an 'epic', a 'glorious tale of generations' that spans 'a range of intricate feelings' and so on. I was, therefore, mildly suspicious when I read Philippa Gregory's quote on the front of MacDonald's debut novel 'Fall on Your Knees'; 'an epic in the true...
Depressing book. I was glad to be finished with it. Well-written, but depressing. I would not reread it - that's the worst thing I can say about a book.
this got better for me as it went along. i wasn't into it for at least the first half, but was surprised at how it started to creep into my head by the end.
Fall On Your Knees was an Oprah book club selection and has all the elements of a great book to discuss with friends - wonderfully complex characters, a few unexpected plot twists and those pivotal decision points, where a character's choice determines the fate of the book. Although this audio edit...
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