First Line Friday

First Line Friday | Week 121 | The Joy of Falling by Lindsay Harrel

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line.

I’ve wanted to read The Joy of Falling by Lindsay Harrel since I first heard about it. Why? Because it’s largely set in New Zealand, of course! Here’s the first line of Chapter One:

First line from The Joy of Falling: Once upon a time, color had dominated Eva Jamison's days.

What’s the book nearest you, and what’s the first line?

About The Joy of Falling

Eva and Angela must learn to live again. One step at a time.

It has been fifteen months since Eva and Angela lost their thrill-seeking husbands in a scuba diving accident. Both women are trying to navigate their way through the grief, but neither one is making much progress. Angela is barely making ends meet, angry at her husband for leaving her to raise three children on her own. Meanwhile, Eva is stuck, unable to move forward after losing the love of her life and her source of inspiration.

But then Eva gets a life-changing phone call. Before Brent and Wes died, they had signed up for a race of a lifetime—an ultra-marathon in beautiful New Zealand. Eva begs Angela to run the race with her in their husbands’ place, and Angela finally agrees, hoping to finally understand her husband’s choices.

Training is exhausting, and the race is even more demanding. Their journey grows more complicated by the presence of two men—Marc is Brent’s best friend who is running the race with Eva and Angela, and Simon King is a writer who is covering their inspiring story. With every step, Eva and Angela must ask themselves questions that they haven’t had the courage to ask before. As the women literally put one foot in front of the other, they wonder: Is it possible to find their way forward in hope?

You can find The Joy of Falling online at

Amazon | ChristianBook | Goodreads | Koorong

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One comment

  1. BECCA WEIDEL says:

    Can’t wait to read this one soon!
    Not sure which book I’m sharing for FLF yet but I’m currently reading Promise to Keep by Elizabeth Byler Younts and the first line of my current chapter is “It was the first church Sunday since the church leaders had visited.”

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