I wasn’t sure of this at first as
it is written from several viewpoints.
However, as each section is headed up with the narrator’s name it was clear
who was narrating the story. As the
story developed so did the individual voices.
The story is set over a ten year period from 1901. It is about two middle-class households whose
lives become entwined due to the fact their family plots in the local cemetery
rest next to each other. The daughters
of both families and the son of a gravedigger meet on the day of Queen
Victoria’s death and there begins an unlikely friendship between the three
children. I enjoyed the attention to
detail. It captures the frivolousness of
the Edwardian period when the rich were comfortable, but bored, especially the
women, who longed for something more meaningful to enrich their lives
with. No wonder a lot of women at the
time embraced the suffragette movement, which the story also touches on. I liked all the characters and it was
interesting seeing the same scene through different eyes.
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