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Why would someone bury a bucket of precious jewels and gemstones and never return?
Present Day. When respected American jewelry historian, Kate Kirby, receives a call about the Cheapside jewels, she knows she's on the brink of the experience of a lifetime.
But the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. Back in Boston, Kate has uncovered a series of sketches in her great-grandmother's papers linking her suffragette great-grandmother Essie to the Cheapside collection. Could these sketches hold the key to Essie's secret life in Edwardian London?
In the summer of 1912, impoverished Irish immigrant Essie Murphy happens to be visiting her brother when a workman's pickaxe strikes through the floor of an old tenement house in Cheapside, near St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The workmen uncover a stash of treasure—from Ottoman pendants to Elizabethan and Jacobean gems—and then the finds disappear again! Could these jewels change the fortunes of Essie and her sisters?
Together with photographer Marcus Holt, Kate Kirby chases the history of the Cheapside jewels. Soon, everything Kate believes about her family, gemology, and herself will be threatened.
Based on a fascinating true story, The Lost Jewels is a riveting historical fiction novel that will captivate readers from the beginning to the unforgettable, surprising end.
"A brilliant story, brilliantly told." —Heather Morris, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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Release date
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780062882035
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780062882035
- File size: 1409 KB
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- English
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March 1, 2020
Australian author Manning follows her big-hit U.S. debut, The Song of the Jade Lily, with fact-based historical fiction about the Cheapside jewels, a stash of Ottoman pendants and Elizabethan and Jacobian sparklers discovered beneath the floor of a 1912 London tenement. They quickly disappeared, but in present times American jewelry historian Kate Kirby learns that her great-grandmother Essie may have a link to the jewels. With a 75,000-copy paperback and 30, 000-copy hardcover first printing.
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