Our Fallen Woman
PEI–born writer Steven Habbi, former Brand Chief of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), is launching his debut historical novel, Our Fallen Woman, on January 31 at Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. The private launch precedes an international release in London, UK, later in 2026.
At five years old, Erin Kelly is left in the care of the church after her father flees debtors’ prison, and her mother can no longer keep starvation at bay. From this beginning of poverty and abandonment in 1895 Galway, Erin learns early how fragile a life can be, and how fiercely it must be fought for.
Our Fallen Woman follows a cast of survivors driven by hunger for more than survival alone. Raised in a Dublin orphanage and forged by the streets of London, Erin grows into a woman navigating a society built to silence her. When she meets Paddy McCann, a charming hustler with ambitions as restless as her own, their lives collide in a complex bond of love, reliance and shared longing for escape.
Spanning continents and decades, Our Fallen Woman is a sweeping historical epic of resilience and desire; a story not only of one woman’s fight for agency, but of the men and women shaped by an era when survival demanded sacrifice, and reinvention came at a price.
Published independently, the novel is part of a wider storytelling project incorporating historical research and filming a documentary series across Ireland, UK and New York. The AI-enhanced series reconstructs the real history behind the fiction.
Habbi is a Canadian author and creative producer living in London, but he’s originally from the Island, and those roots still run deep in his work. For more than twenty years, Habbi has worked for many major global brands including Formula 1, Nissan, HSBC, to most recently leading the London Stock Exchange Group’s brand portfolio.
Digital copies are available online and hard copies can be purchased locally in Charlottetown.