by Tracy Chevalier
Tuesday, June 30
6:30 p.m.
Pick up a copy of this month's selection and add your thoughts to the discussion in the comments!January 1901, the day after Queen Victoria’s death: Two families visit neighboring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. One is decorated with a sentimental angel, the other an elaborate urn. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen and cling to Victorian traditions; the Colemans look forward to a more modern society. To their mutual distaste, the families are inextricably linked when their daughters become friends behind the tombstones. And worse, befriend the gravedigger’s son.As the girls grow up and the new century finds its feet, Britain emerges from the shadows of Victorian values to a golden Edwardian summer. It is then that the beautiful but frustrated Mrs Coleman makes a bid for greater personal freedom, with disastrous consequences, and the lives of the Colemans and the Waterhouses are changed forever.
