Like Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, The Fall in my Father's House is volume one in an interrelated seven volume series under the title of the final volume, A Full Life. The titles of the full seven volume set are the following: The Fall in my Father's house, The Road to Recovery, The Book of Grace, Cased Closed, Full of Fun, The Power of Poetry in a Time of Uncertainty, and concluding with the final volume and title of the seven volume series, A Full Life. The The plot of the story is the following: a father and son take a trip to the West coast of Ireland to stay at the house that the protagonist father built over 100 years ago and to go to a music festival. On the day after their arrival, the protagonist falls down a flight of stairs in his father's house and breaks his leg. The rest of the story deals with what happens to the protagonist- both internally and externally- as a result of his fall.