The Collector's Daughter
Book Feature - The Collector's Daughter by Gill Paul
HBL Note: Oh, I just adore Gill Paul! Not only is she a talented author, she’s also an exceptional human being. I read and reviewed her novel JACKIE AND MARIA and then had the opportunity to interview her as part of an author panel on writing about the Kennedy Family, alongside Stephanie Marie Thornton, Kerri Maher, Steven Rowley, and Michelle Gable. But before all of that, I featured her novel THE LOST DAUGHTER. We’ve kept in touch via social media and I got to hang out with her virtually at the Historical Novel Society conference, which, if I remember correctly, is where I first heard about her latest novel, THE COLLECTOR’S DAUGHTER, about Lady Evelyn Herbert, the first person to step inside Tutankhamun’s tomb. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - The Collector's Daughter by Gill Paul
From the publisher:
Eve, the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, was brought up in the “real Downton Abbey,” Highclere Castle. Popular, pretty, and destined for a prestigious marriage, she wants more than an ornamental life. Rejecting the suitors her mother picks, she leaves behind the world of society balls and chaperones for adventure, working alongside her father and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb in the Egyptian desert. And in November 1922, her dreams come true when the burial place of Tutankhamun is discovered, and she becomes the first person to crawl inside the three-thousand-year-old site. Soon after the “greatest moment” of her life, a string of tragedies befall Lady Evelyn and she begins to question what happened in Egypt. Could the “Curse of the Pharaohs” all the papers are talking about be real? Fifty years on, an Egyptian academic comes with questions about what really happened in 1922, and a chain of events is unleashed that threatens Eve’s happiness once more, and makes her wonder if there could be some truth in the ancient curse stories.
