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<p><b>The 'hypnotic...addictive' (<i>New York Times</i>) debut novel narrated by a young woman meditating on the malleable, breakable bonds keeping her family from falling apart.</b><br><br><b><i>There's a superstition in our family about falling...</i></b><br><br>Marta's great-great-grandfather Jirí was said to have given a gentle push to the back of a stonemason for having wronged him. The stonemason fell to his death and the family fled Prague for the American Midwest, where they set up a new life.<br><br>So begins the story of Marta and her brother Nick, deeply interwoven twins haunted by the mysterious curse that has plagued their family for centuries - one that has doomed them to suffer various types of falls. When Nick tumbles out of a window and ends up seriously injured, Marta must embark on a heartbreaking quest to discover whether or not his fall was intentional, and to stop her family from falling apart...<br><br><b>'Wonderful...with an idiosyncratic humour that reminded me of Ottessa Moshfegh' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>'Original and engaging' <i>Guardian</i> </b><br><br><b>'Lights up the imagination' Dina Nayeri</b></p>\n\n<p><b>The 'hypnotic...addictive' (<i>New York Times</i>) debut novel narrated by a young woman meditating on the malleable, breakable bonds keeping her family from falling apart.</b><br><br><b><i>There's a superstition in our family about falling...</i></b><br><br>Marta's great-great-grandfather Jirí was said to have given a gentle push to the back of a stonemason for having wronged him. The stonemason fell to his death and the family fled Prague for the American Midwest, where they set up a new life.<br><br>So begins the story of Marta and her brother Nick, deeply interwoven twins haunted by the mysterious curse that has plagued their family for centuries - one that has doomed them to suffer various types of falls. When Nick tumbles out of a window and ends up seriously injured, Marta must embark on a heartbreaking quest to discover whether or not his fall was intentional, and to stop her family from falling apart...<br><br><b>'Wonderful...with an idiosyncratic humour that reminded me of Ottessa Moshfegh' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>'Original and engaging' <i>Guardian</i> </b><br><br><b>'Lights up the imagination' Dina Nayeri</b></p>