The theme for my book club is ‘Democracy’. I thought of the suffragettes and this was suggested (by google) as a book about suffragettes – is it though?
Here’s the blurb …
In her New York Times bestselling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives- wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger’s son-Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century.
I am a fan of Tracy Chevalier’s novels. My favourites being The Lady and the Unicorn, and A Single Thread (neither of which I have blogged about).
This has all of the hallmarks of a Chevalier novel – well-researched, beautifully written, and focussing on women. It’s about two privileged families at the turn of the century navigating the societal and cultural changes. It’s about women and how little control they had over their bodies, money, and time. Some women no longer want to be ‘the angel in the home’.
A review.