Fall on Your Knees is a 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, at the hands of their dangerous father. The title was taken from the text of the popular Christmas song "O Holy Night." Fall on Your Knees was published by Knopf Canada in 1996 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and was also a part of Oprah Winfrey's book club in 2002. It has been translated in to 17 languages.
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