num_pages: 416
description: ‘Vividly imagined’ Sunday Telegraph‘Sex and death meet again in [a] marvellous evocation of Edwardian England’ Daily Mail The girl reminded me of my favourite chocolates, whipped hazelnut creams, and I knew just from looking at her that I wanted her for my best friend.Queen Victoria is dead. In January 1901, the day after her passing, two very different families visit neighbouring graves in a London cemetery. The traditional Waterhouses revere the late Queen where the Colemans have a more modern outlook, but both families are appalled by the friendship that springs up between their respective daughters.As the girls grow up, their world changes almost beyond measure: cars are replacing horses, electric lighting is taking over from gas, and emancipation is fast approaching, to the delight of some and the dismay of others…
language: English
title: Falling Angels
titlecomplete: Falling Angels
characters: Simon Field, Maude Coleman, Kitty Coleman, Richard Coleman, Gertrude Waterhouse, Lavinia Waterhouse, Albert Waterhouse
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Drama, Adult, Novels, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Victorian
ratings_count: 25312
places: London, England
publisher: Harper Collins