Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper5/28/2023 ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. If at times the coincidences seem, well, too coincidental, blame Dickens. Up scheme and Fallen Grace has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2011. ![]() The story itself moves at an energetic, page-turning clip. A companion piece to Mary Hoopers bestselling At the Sign of the Sugared. ![]() Hooper has done her research, and she makes elements like Victorian funeral practices absolutely fascinating. All of Dickens touchstones are here: the tightly wound connections the greatand not-so-greatexpectations the bumpy twists and the detailed descriptions of life in Victorian England. There she meets a handsome young lawyer who offers his card and a shifty woman who offers her work in a funeral home. When the book opens, Grace is at the cemetery hiding the remains of the baby, who died in childbirth, in a strangers casket because she is too poor to provide a burial. Life in a school for underprivileged girls led to pregnancy for Grace after one of the schools benefactors came to her bed. Their mothers dead, and their father long ago disappeared. In this Dickensian read, Grace Parkes and her sister, simple Lily, have been abandoned to fate. ![]()
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