Falling Angels
Author: Tracy Chevalier
In Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier has combined a moving elegy to the lost innocence of the 21st century’s grandmothers and great-grandmothers with a reminder of the strength and modernity of their aspirations and achievements. Maude and Livy are aged six in 1901, when Queen Victoria has just died and the whole country is in mourning. In 1910 they are almost young women wh….Read More
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