num_pages: 508
description: "This big, bold, epic shocker of a novel reads as if John Irving meet Joyce Carol Oates in her Gothic period....It's a wild ride". -- Sandra Scofield, Chicago TribuneA runaway #1 bestseller in Canada, this riveting family saga takes readers from Cape Breton Island to the battlefields of World War I to New York City's jazz scene -- and into the lives, and guilty secrets, of four remarkable sisters."Fall on Your Knees proves that sisterhood is powerful -- but not exactly as we thought it would be". -- Rita Mae Brown
language: English
title: Fall on Your Knees
titlecomplete: Fall on Your Knees
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Canadian Literature, Adult Fiction, Canada, Historical, Novels, LGBT
ratings_count: 65552
places: Nova Scotia, Canada, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Fiction Book, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book Overall, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Ferro-Grumley Awards
publisher: Simon & Schuster