"Set among the sweeping skirts and social upheavals of Edwardian London, Tracy Chevalier's Falling Angels is a meditation on change, loss, and recovery. Her central characters are two young girls of the same age, whose family plots are situated side-by-side in a cemetery modeled on Highgate. Lavinia Waterhouse is respectably middle-class, devoted, like her conventional, doting mother, to the right way to do things, although suspiciously well- schooled in subjects like funerary sculpture and the English practices of mourning. Her friend Maude Coleman comes from a slightly more privileged and free-thinking background. In contrast with Lavinia's mother, Maude's mother Kitty Coleman is well-educated by the standards of the day, and it has made her restless and irritable. But neither her reading, nor her gardening, nor her affair with the somber, high-thinking governor of the cemetery is enough for Kitty. She comes alive only when she discovers the women's suffrage movement, and her devotion to the cause takes her away from Maude in every sense." from amazon.com

A very nice & easy & entertaining read. I especially liked the varying points of views of several characters. I think the historical period has been drawn very well, and though the themes seem quite serious and dark, there is some subtle humor.
The actual copy's cover is a bit different, because it is an UK edition.

I am organizing an international bookray for this book. I'll be mailing it to Avonlea-1 latest by December 22.

The list of participants has been closed by today, December 18th. Minerswifebb has a bookcrossing zone in her B&B, so if the book does not get lost it might at last be released into the wild in Canada.

1. Avonlea-1, Germany
2. Clawdia, Spain
3. DianeO, UK
4. Talkland, UK
5. Xana, Portugal
6. Amusedbythis, USA
7. WarEagle78, USA
8. ppagano, USA
9. MarciNYC, USA
10. minerswifebb, Canada

I received the book today, and will read it as fast as I can. But I began another one yesterday, so I guess it will take about one week.

07.01.04: Sorry, two weeks. I got a lot of work.

At first I wanted to stop, because I thought it's boring. But after a while I was getting interested in the people and in the way the book is wrote: Like a diary of diffrent persons. It's an "easy-to-read"-book after a busy day.

As fast as I get Clawdias adress, I will send it to her.

18.01.04: It starts travelling tomorrow

I am on vacation right now, so I make the journal entry. Clawdia sent me a PM today, that she had received the book.