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This is a sumptuous new look for the bestselling author of Girl with a PearlEarring. 1901 was the year of Queen Victorias death. The two graves stoodnext to each other both beautifully decorated. One had a large urn somemight say ridiculously large and the other almost leaning over the first anangel some might say overly sentimental. The two families visiting thecemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves were divided even more bysocial class than by taste. They would certainly never have become acquaintedhad not their two girls meeting behind the tombstones become best friends.And furthermore and even more unsuitably become involved in the life of thegravediggers son. As the girls grow up as the century wears on as the newera and the new King change social customs the lives and fortunes of theColemans and the Waterhouses become more and more closely intertwined neighbours in life as well as death.January 1901 the day after Queen Victorias death. Two families visit neighbouring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. 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. As the girls grow up and a new role for women emerges as cars replace horses and electricity outshines gas lighting the nation emerges from the shadows of oppressive Victorian values to a golden Edwardian summer. «
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