Falling Angels (CD-Audio)

from sarahfrierson

Falling Angels is Tracy Chevalier's (author of Girl With a Pearl Earring) glimpse into a changing English society during the decade between the deaths of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. Through the lens of turn-of-the-century funerary tradition, she tells the stories of two neighboring famili...

from dalzan

Set among the sweeping skirts and social upheavals of Edwardian London, the central characters are two young girls of the same age, whose family plots are situated side-by-side in a cemetery. Lavinia Waterhouse is respectably middle-class, devoted, like her conventional, doting mother, to the rig...

from eas

10/06/07-11/06/07 Unlike Chevalier's Girl With A Pearl Earring I could not put this book down. Written from the perspectives of the members of two families, their servants, friends and 'the gravedigger's son' the book memorably evokes the atmosphere of middle-class Victorian London. The subjects ...

from ImpudentAngel

This was a pretty good book with historical insight into post-Victorian England and the early days of the Women's Suffrage Movement. Interesting, multi-dimensional characters with depth, intrigue, secrets, and human imperfections who grow and change over time, for better and for worse.

from kingsportlibrary

Falling Angels is a historical fiction which takes place in Victorian England. Because the main character is a child, the explanations for Victorian burial and mourning customs make sense. This also allows the reader to "see" more as a child. A child can get into places and overhear conversations...