num_pages: 384
description: ‘Vividly imagined’ Sunday Telegraph‘Sex and death meet again in [a] marvellous evocation of Edwardian England’ Daily MailThe 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 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: German
title: Wenn Engel fallen
titlecomplete: Wenn Engel fallen
characters: Gertrude Waterhouse, Kitty Coleman, Lavinia Waterhouse, Simon Field, Albert Waterhouse, Richard Coleman, Maude Coleman
genres: Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Drama, Victorian, Adult, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 25307
places: London, England
publisher: List