Mesmeric intoxicatingly original' Hannah Kent bestselling author of Burial Rites 'Haunting
and surreal And Then She Fell had me questioning reality alongside Alice as she grappled with
motherhood being a writer a wife and feeling like an outsider in her own life. With its
sharp wit and beautiful writing this book had me flying through the pages.' Ana Reyes New
York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines 'A towering achievement stunningly
good storytelling.' Melissa Lucashenko Miles Franklin Award winning author of Too Much Lip On
the surface Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a
beautiful baby girl Dawn her ever-charming husband Steve-a white academic whose area of study
is conveniently her own Mohawk culture-is nothing but supportive and they've moved into a new
home in a wealthy neighbourhood in Toronto a generous gift from her in-laws. But Alice could
not feel more like an imposter. She isn't bonding with Dawn a struggle made more difficult by
the recent loss of her own mother. Every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from Steve
and their picture-perfect neighbours amongst whom she's the sole Indigenous resident. Her
perpetual self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left: writing a modern
retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story. And then strange things start happening. Alice
finds herself hearing voices she can't explain and speaking with things that should not be
talking back to her all while her neighbours' passive aggression begins to morph into
something far more threatening. Though Steve urges her this is all in her head Alice suspects
something is very very wrong and that her creation story holds the key to her and Dawn's
survival... She just has to finish it before it's too late...
