Falling Angels
Registered by disneyfreaksam of Warminster, Wiltshire United Kingdom on 3/20/2012
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3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by disneyfreaksam from Warminster, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Using a number of perspectives - wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and servants, and a gravediggers son - this book follows the fortunes of two families in the first years of the twentieth century.
Journal Entry 2 by disneyfreaksam at Warminster, Wiltshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Her writing, once again, got me hooked and the characters just pop to life. I dont like when her books end and wonder what would happen to these characters next.
Enjoy
Got this book in the mail a while back, thank you, disneyfreaksam, for sending it to me!
Book description from the author's website:
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.
Book description from the author's website:
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.
I read this book in two days, between March 25 and March 27, 2018.
I liked Falling Angels quite a lot, as it took place during a fascinating time in history. The characters and their relationships were interesting, but what really captured me was the women's suffrage movement. I didn't like this book quite as much as my two favorite books by Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring and Remarkable Creatures. I think unfortunately the ending ruined my enjoyment of the book a bit.
I liked Falling Angels quite a lot, as it took place during a fascinating time in history. The characters and their relationships were interesting, but what really captured me was the women's suffrage movement. I didn't like this book quite as much as my two favorite books by Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring and Remarkable Creatures. I think unfortunately the ending ruined my enjoyment of the book a bit.
Mailed the book to kihaan. Enjoy!
Thank you for this wishlist book, CandyDarling!
I really enjoy Chevalier's books, they somehow make history alive and real. Again the characters made the story and make you wonder what it was like back then... One of my favourite authors for sure.
Journal Entry 9 by kihaan at Scandic Airport in Vantaa, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Friday, April 7, 2023
Released 11 mos ago (4/7/2023 UTC) at Scandic Airport in Vantaa, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland
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On the shelf opposite to the elevators.
Happy reading!
Happy reading!