And worse, befriend the gravedigger’s son.Īs 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. To their mutual distaste, the families are inextricably linked when their daughters become friends behind the tombstones. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen and cling to Victorian traditions the Colemans look forward to a more modern society. One is decorated with a sentimental angel, the other an elaborate urn. Two families visit neighboring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. It is 1901, the day after Queen Victoria’s death and the ‘I’ in this opening is Kitty Coleman, one of several narrators in this novel set in Edwardian England. Well, I thought, here’s a novel way to begin the new century. I did not know whether to be shocked or amused. The head of blond hair beside me was decidedly not my husband’s. I woke this morning with a stranger in my bed. It’s been sitting unread for several years on the to-be read shelves and I’ve been meaning to read it for ages after reading her earlier book, Girl with a Pearl Earring.

I really enjoyed reading Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier.

Falling angels by tracy chevalier