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Falling Angels : A Novel by Tracy Chevalier & Anne Twomey [Chevalier, Tracy & Twomey, Anne] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In 1901 London, as the precise social order of the Victorian era winds down and the forward-looking Edwardian order takes wing, three strangers meet in the city's stony Highgate Cemetery. Beautiful Lavinia revels in the elaborate trappings of the past. Plain Maude strives to shape the future. Simon Fields, a boy their age, is bound by poverty and professional to the cemetery.As they explore the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, they bring their very different families together and ultimately discover that their fates are intertwined.Amazon.com ReviewSet among the sweeping skirts and social upheavals of Edwardian London, Tracy Chevalier's Falling Angels is a meditation on change, loss, and recovery. Her central characters are two young girls of the same age, whose family plots are situated side-by-side in a cemetery modeled on Highgate. Lavinia Waterhouse is respectably middle-class, devoted, like her conventional, doting mother, to the right way to do things, although suspiciously well- schooled in subjects like funerary sculpture and the English practices of mourning. Her friend Maude Coleman comes from a slightly more privileged and free-thinking background. In contrast wi

Who reads Falling Angels : A Novel?

Author

Tracy Chevalier & Anne Twomey [Chevalier, Tracy & Twomey, Anne]

Publisher

Highbridge Audio

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786238187

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.55 / 5 (18,665 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13