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Falling Angels
 

Falling Angels

by Tracy Chevalier

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... (read more)

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Liked It

cjhardy
  • Rated 5 stars

“Tracy Chevallier has woven a story that is dark and compelling. Two post victorian families united by the proximity of their gravesites find their lives intertwined. Their two daughters meet in the cemetery and, with the young gravedigger, begin a friendship that spans nearly 10 years. In their upscale livestyles they are exposed to the underbelly of life in Post-Victorian London. Colorful and intriguing, the girls are exposed to the Suffragete Movement. Detailed and accurate, the reader,...”

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Didn’t Like It

Autumn S
  • Rated 1 stars

“I was so disappointed with this book! I had kind of expected it to be as wonderful as Girl with a Pearl Earring, but it was anything BUT as wonderful as GwaPE. Maybe Tracy Chevalier's evil twin sister wrote this one?”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.585714 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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  • B. Anne

    b. anne said:

    “True. Maude was the most likable character. The other characters were barely likable at all. I do like the fact it was a story told in different perspectives by each character. However, I thought the story was a strange one. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.”

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • amira m

    amira m said:

    “i've just finished reading this book..i like the fact that it's told from different perspectives...i liked Maude..only Maude...i really like Tracy's style of writing...it's intresting...and enjoyable...”

    posted Tuesday, December 25 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
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