I Know Where I Am When I'm Falling

All risk takers and daredevils must first learn how to fall, because they know they'll be doing a lot of it...

Ruby, a young and idealistic schoolgirl, is devoted to the charming and smart but unreliable Angus, at times even admiring his audacity. Yet as their love for each other deepens, his antics grow ever more dangerous, culminating in a risky art heist. Will Ruby lose sight of the truth altogether by sticking with Angus? Can she save him? And should she risk almost everything to do so?

Set in New England during the 1970s, this captivating novel from award-winning author Amanda Holmes is based on a true story. At the book's core, uncomfortable questions are posed about the blindness of love, essentially asking how far is too far. With a wonderfully colourful cast of characters and well-paced drama pulling the reader from each chapter to the next, I Know Where I Am When I'm Falling is the perfect book for those who have wondered just how blind love can be.

Amanda Holmes was born in Hampton Middlesex and moved to the United States in her teens. She received her BA from Emerson College and her MFA from George Mason University. She and her husband met in a production of As You Like It, when they played opposite each other as Rosalind and Orlando. Together they have raised three children and with the diplomatic service have lived in Caracas, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Brussels and Rome and currently near Washington DC. Amanda's stories have appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Moxie, The Christian Science Monitor, Rattapallax, and the Ether Books app . She has written and edited art listings for The New Yorker and taught writing at Argentina's foremost teacher and translating college Lenguas Vivas, at American University of Rome and at Northern Virginia Community College. She maintains a popular blog www.irrelevanceofhope.blogspot.com, and is also a figurative sculptor.