Praise for Falling Angels
“Chevalier’s ringing prose is as radiantly efficient as well-tended silver.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Chevalier’s tone is candid and immediate. Her enthusiasm for her subject, as well as her dedication to historical accuracy, keeps the reader engaged.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Chevalier not only authentically details the era’s social mores, tensions, and contradictions, she writes the book we want to read.”
—New York Daily News
“Part of the secret of Chevalier’s success is her uncanny ability to bring a lost world to life... Just as Vermeer’s work helps to explain his world in Chevalier’s earlier novel, so the symbolic art of the graveyard beautifully illuminates Victorian culture in Falling Angels.”
—The Baltimore Sun
“A thoughtful exploration of the ways people misread each other by being trapped in their own perspectives.”
—People magazine
“Chevalier’s second novel confirms her place in the literary firmament... This is a beautiful novel, not soon forgotten.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
TRACY CHEVALIER is the author of the bestselling Girl With a Pearl Earring. An American originally from Washington, D.C., she currently lives in London with her husband and son.
“Brilliant ... a rich story that is true to the era.”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“At once elegant, daring, original, and compelling.”
—Kansas City Independent
“Her new novel may be called Falling Angels, but there is no doubt Tracy Chevalier is a rising star.”
—The Orlando Sentinel
“[Girl With a] Pearl Earringfans will love the evocation of atmosphere one would expect from this writer ... Chevalier gives the kiss of life to the historical novel.”
—The Independent (London)
“The novel is as cleverly atmospheric as its predecessor ... Each separate voice is perfectly judged, reverberating in the mind’s ear ... A well-researched, vividly imagined, and entirely credible tale.”
—The Sunday Telegraph