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Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Book Number: RC 53613
2 sound cassettes
Below is a description from her website and the Ural for the site. I liked
her eye for detail, but was some what put back by the abrupt ending. I have
two more of her books in my to be read stack and look forward to them. I
give this one a 4 out of 5.
Happy reading,
Carla/TexasRed
January 1901, the day after Queen Victoria’s death: Two families visit
neighboring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. One is decorated with a
sentimental
angel, the other an elaborate urn. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen and
cling to Victorian traditions; the Colemans look forward to a more modern
society. To their mutual distaste, the families are inextricably linked when
their daughters become friends behind the tombstones. And worse, befriend
the gravedigger’s son.
As the girls grow up and the new century finds its feet, as cars replace
horses and electricity outshines gas lighting, Britain emerges from the
shadows
of oppressive Victorian values to a golden Edwardian summer. It is then that
the beautiful, frustrated Mrs. Coleman makes a bid for greater personal
freedom,
with disastrous consequences, and the lives of the Colemans and the
Waterhouses are changed forever.
A poignant tale of two families brought reluctantly together, Falling Angels
is an intimate story of childhood friendships, sexual awakening and human
frailty.
Yet its epic sweep takes in the changing of a nation, the fight for women’s
suffrage and the questioning of steadfast beliefs. Bestseller. 2001.
http://www.tchevalier.com/