Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier
Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier
20 Rating(s)
List: $25.87 | Sale: $18.11
Club: $12.93

Falling Angels

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Narrator: Anne Twomey

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2001


Synopsis

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.

About Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Chevalier is the author of the New York Times bestsellers At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl with a Pearl Earring, among others. She lives in London.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Dustine on 2011-10-16 15:30:12

Nothing really happens until the last quarter of the book and then it is tragic. The story is quite dependent on dialogue and it seemed to go on and on. By the last quarter of the book things begin to move with the soul of the book finally revealed. I suspect this is an accurate depiction womens lives in 1901 Great Britain. It was a time of the haves and the have nots, the privileged and the people who worked themselves into an early grave. And yet even the homes of the wealthy were rife with unhappiness and discontent. The future appears bleak for them all despite the strong current of change that is sweeping them all along whether they go willingly or not.

Goodreads review by Cheryl

This book grabbed me from the very first page. Set at the turn of the century, the story takes place amidst the women's suffrage movement. Gender issues are also noted, whereas the man was the head of the household and "handled" the wife. Each character speaks individually, allowing the reader to lis......more

این کتاب رو چند ماه پیش خوندم و فکر کردم که خب، از اون داستانهایی که بعد از تموم کردنش از یادت میره و همون سه ستاره براش کافیه. اما همون سادگی داستان بعد از چند وقت هنوز توی ذهن می مونه و اصلا نمی دونم چه ویژگی ای توی داستان باعث این اتفاق میشه. در کل تریسی شوالیه رگ خواب خواننده رو بلده و نویسنده خ......more