# Fall On Your Knees

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- Authors: [Ann-Marie Macdonald](https://www.bookquiver.com/ann-marie-macdonald)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9974-051-3
- Pages: 576
- Published: 1997-07-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Following the curves of the twentieth century, FALL ON YOUR KNEES takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The children of a driven and ambitious father, the sisters -Kathleen, the oldest, a beautiful talent intent on a career as an opera diva; Frances, the drunken rogue and child prostitute; Lily, the pseudo-saint cripple; and Mercedes, the fervent Catholic and protector of the flock - are swept along by the tumult of events and of their own desires. This is a story of family relationships, racial strife, miracles, attempted murder, birth and eath, and an extraordinary love affair.