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Amazon.com Review Set 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 with Lavinia's mother, Maude's mother Kitty Coleman is well-educated by the standards of the day, and it has made her restless and irritable. But neither her reading, nor her gardening, nor her affair with the somber, high-thinking governor of the cemetery is enough for Kitty. She comes alive only when she discovers the women's suffrage movement, and her devotion to the cause takes her away from Maude in every sense. Although the point of view shifts between many characters (with even the Coleman's maid and cook getting their say, sometim

Who reads Falling angels?

Author

Chevalier, Tracy

Publisher

Penguin

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565115088

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, History, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.55 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14