![]() ![]() If I were a reader who judged books based on my moral judgments of the characters, I would have disliked this book, but it was a good story, and that’s enough for me. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. ![]() Both sets of parents seemed so careless of their children. Falling Angels: A Novel is written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Penguin Books (P-US). In fact, the book was not overfilled with likeable characters. Lavinia was the strongest presence and she was insufferable. It was hard to get a handle on all of the characters, since the chapters presenting their voices were so, so short. The mothers, the daughters and various other characters get their turn at narrating the book.I said the book was odd. ![]() Lavinia’s mother in more conventional, and so is Lavinia, who is annoyingly fixated on all that is proper and ladylike. Maude’s mother is discontented in her marriage and eventually becomes involved in Britain’s radical suffragist organization, the Women’s Social and Political Union. ![]() It was a lightning-fast read, in fact, although it was very odd.The falling angels of the title are a couple of girls, Maude Coleman and Lavinia Waterhouse, who become friends in childhood after meeting in a graveyard where their parents own plots. I remember being bored, and my notebook annotation says simply, “Pretty flat.” This one was not boring. I read The Lady and the Unicorn for my book club in 2005. ![]()
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