So, change is inevitable but always comes at a cost?Īnd the cost is really high – the murder, sadly, could just as easily happen in today’s more liberated times, but the chaos of the change process provided the opportunity.Īnyway, the plot kept me reading until late at night, and my only problem was referring back constantly to check on the passage of time. Of course, those bringing about change are fanatical and careless, destroying much in the process. And the fact the angel fell, is that symbolic of the fact that the old order is built on poor foundations? Change is inevitable. Well, I’m assuming it refers to the role of middle/upper class women as angels who will be perceived by Richard and his mother, for example, to be falling from grace as they work towards equality. Wonderful evocation of the time: the class system, the attitude to royalty, male chauvinism, domestic establishments and routines, and the rituals surrounding death, for example, were just so well done.
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