Title: The Bookschlepper recommends
Product review: In 1792 London William Blake gets new neighbors and is soon embroiled in their lives as Maggie, Maisie and Jem take on the big city, the circus and the serious business of growing up. There is more emphasis on the teens than on Blake in this novel. As she did in The Girl with the Pearl Earring, Chevalier evokes a specific time and place: from the filthy air and streets of Lambeth to the golden fields and muddy villages of Dorsetshire to the demons escaping Blake's mind as he etches his copper plates. It is a hard-scrabble existence for most, for whom life is cheap; it is a privilege for a few, for whom women are cheaper.
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