falling angels

Two families visiting the cemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves would certainly never have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends, and - and even more unsuitably - become involved in the life of the gravedigger's muddied son Using a number of shifting perspectives - wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and servants, and a gravedigger's son - 'Falling angels' follows the fortunes of two families in the first years of the twentieth century."--Page 4 of cover Set in early 20th century London, Chevalier follows two girls as the changes in the century emerge