Falling Angels  -  Tracy Chevalier

KORTE INHOUD

January 1901, the day after Queen Victoria's death. Two families visit neighbouring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen and cling to Victorian traditions; the Colemans look forward to a more moders society. To their mutual distaste, the families are inextricably linked when their daughters become friends behing the tombstones.
As the girls grow up and a new role for women emerges, as cars replace horses and electricity outshines gas lighting, the nation emerges from...
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2006 Uitgever: Harper 401 paginas Taal: Engels