Falling Angels  by Tracy Chevalier  FALLING ANGELS is Tracy
Chevalier's long-awaited follow-up to her international
bestseller GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING. However, this new title is
far from a companion piece to her beloved debut.  FALLING ANGELS
begins January 1901, the morning after Queen Victoria's death,
the morning that her son, the dandy King Edward VII becomes
monarch. This is a telling date to begin a novel with, and
Chevalier doesn't waste any time setting up her main character,
Kitty Coleman, as the archetype of the new Edwardian age. Kitty
is an upstanding London lady --- beautiful, refined and very,
very smart. She has a handsome husband, a plain but intelligent
daughter, and a beautif