num_pages: 566
description: A sprawling saga about five generations of a family from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is the impressive first fiction from Canadian playwright and actor Ann-Marie MacDonald. This epic tale of family history, family secrets, and music centers on four sisters and their relationships with each other and with their father. Set in the coal-mining communities of Nova Scotia in the early part of this century, the story also shifts to the battlefields of World War I and the jazz scene of New York City in the 1920s.
language: English
title: Fall on Your Knees
titlecomplete: Fall on Your Knees
genres: Fiction, Historical, Canadian Literature, LGBT, Canada, Book Club, Novels, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 65545
places: Canada, Nova Scotia, 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: Vintage