





New novel released October 11, 2022
FAYNE Now Available in Bookstores + Audiobook!
In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland, where she has been kept from the world by her adoring father, Lord Henry Bell, owing to a mysterious condition. Charlotte, strong and insatiably curious, revels in the moorlands, and has learned the treacherous and healing ways of the bog from the old hired man, Byrn, whose own origins are shrouded in mystery.
Her idyllic existence is shadowed by the magnificent portrait on the landing in Fayne House which depicts her mother, a beautiful Irish-American heiress, holding Charlotte’s brother, Charles Bell. Charlotte has grown up with the knowledge that her mother died in giving birth to her, and that her older brother, Charles, the long-awaited heir, died soon afterwards at the age of two. When Charlotte’s appetite for learning threatens to exceed the bounds of the estate, her father breaks with tradition and hires a tutor to teach his daughter “as you would my son, had I one.”
But when Charlotte and her tutor’s explorations of the bog turn up an unexpected artefact, her father announces he has arranged for her to be cured of her condition, and her world is upended. Charlotte’s passion for knowledge and adventure will take her to the bottom of family secrets and to the heart of her own identity.
Toronto Star: “For Ann-Marie MacDonald, a ‘Fall on Your Knees’ theatrical adaptation was inevitable”
Toronto Star article about the stage premiere of Fall on Your Knees.
Mainstreet PEI with Matt Rainnie: Interview with Ann-Marie MacDonald
Listen to the radio broadcast here.
Montreal Review of Books: Electric Enchantment
Review of Ann-Marie MacDonald's novel Fayne
NOW Toronto: Ann-Marie MacDonald weaves a magnificent, meaningful tapestry in Fayne
NOW Toronto five-star review of Ann-Marie MacDonald's novel Fayne. Review by Janet Somerville.
Podcast: Women of Ill Repute
Interview with Ann-Marie MacDonald on podcast Women of Ill Repute

STUDIO THEATRE
JULY 28 – OCTOBER 2
OPENS AUGUST 25

Written by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Directed by Alisa Palmer
Actor Guinness Menzies has landed his dream role: he’s playing Hamlet at the Stratford Festival. But just before a matinée performance, he suddenly finds himself in the Underworld, a strange realm as frightening as it is hilarious, where time is seriously out of joint. Has he gone mad? Is he dreaming? Has he died…? Meanwhile, teenager Jeremy reaches out to Guinness online as he wrestles with his own version of Hamlet’s famous life-or-death dilemma.
On stage at Can Stage with Margaret Atwood (The Divine Ms M). ...
New interview with CBC books! https://www.cbc.ca/books/it-belongs-to-readers-now-ann-marie-macdonald-on-the-legacy-of-fall-on-your-knees-and-her-impressive-career-1.6718571 ...
…and theatre magic! Thank you, Margaret. 💕 #fallonyourknees ...
Choreography with Margaret Atwood (The Divine Ms M) at Can Stage. #fallonyourknees ...
Blast from the past: CBC interview about Fall On Your Knees from 1996 (scroll down) "This book is a musical" - spoiler alert 😉https://www.cbc.ca/archives/flashback-newsletter-january-9-2023-1.6708935 ...
In celebration of the world premiere of Fall On Your Knees, trailblazing Canadian authors Ann-Marie MacDonald and Margaret Atwood join Toronto International Festival of Authors Director Roland Gulliver for a captivating discussion about adaptation, and how their landmark books have been envisioned for the stage.
https://my.canadianstage.com/8508 ...