In 1901 London, as the precise social order of the Victorian era winds down and the forward-looking Edwardian order takes wing, three strangers meet in the city's tony Highgate Cemetery. Beautiful Lavinia revels in the elaborate trappings of the past. Plain Maude strives to shape the future. Simon Fields, a boy their age, is bound by poverty and professional to the cemetery.
As they explore the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, they bring their very different families together and ultimately discover that their fates are intertwined.
Anne Twomey's unrushed pacing and gentle, melodic voice capture the listener from the first moments of this deceptively simple story about the friendship of two London girls from very different families and the ways in which those families cope with the end of the Victorian era. Chevalier, author of the bestselling Girl With a Pearl Earring, lets each character tell her version of the unfolding drama in the first person. Anne Twomey doesn't try to create a radically different voice for each character; instead she reveals the characters' varying person-alities, social classes, and ages with fine-tuned changes in the rhythm, tone, and pitch of her voice. It's a quiet tour de force that makes this intriguing tale enthralling. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Tracy Chevalier is the author of New Yorks Times bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring. She holds a graduate degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. An American originally from Washington, D.C., she currently lives in London with her husband and son.
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