As the Tree Falls is a historical novel which follows Anna, driven into exile from the high valleys of eighteenth-century Switzerland. Leaving behind the mountains she loves and Johannes, the young man who once risked everything to save her life, she journeys to the Low Countries.

In the desolate peat districts of the north-east, survival is uncertain, and communities struggle to endure.

Then the floods come, reshaping the land and altering the course of lives.

Across the ocean, in the forests of Pennsylvania, a chance meeting brings the past back into Anna’s life. After years of separation, she and Johannes must decide what can be rebuilt, and what must be left behind.

Inspired by the historical exile of Anabaptist communities, the novel explores themes of exile, migration and belonging. It is rooted in the lives of real people forced to begin again far from home.