Falling by Anne Provoost and translated by John Nieuwenhuizen was first published in Belgium and has been translated into many languages. It is a powerful and tragic book about how a person's choices in the past influence and have consequences in other people's present and future. It is also about forgiving the past, about love, friendships, fear, anger, betrayal, choices and about the unfairness and the obstacles in life.

The book is about a weak, vulnerable and easily influenced boy called, Lucas Beigne. He is a bored, trusting and foolish boy who, without knowing it, allows himself to become mixed in history which he isn't even clear of.

Lucas' grandfather died alone the previous winter at his home next to a convent in the hills that surround the town of Montourin. His mother insists she and Lucas maintain the family tradition of holidaying at his grandfather's deserted house...