History Readers Book Club

Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen’s death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives – wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger’s son – Falling Angels is graces with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pear Earring. This book is another dazzling tour de force from this “master of voices”.

Originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, Little Women is a novel that follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. It details their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on Alcott’s own life with her three sisters. The novel addresses three major themes: domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine’s individual identity.”