The Lost Jewels
Book Feature - The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning
HBL Note: The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning is based. on. a. true. story. When push comes to shove, my favorite historical fiction novels are based, at least in part, on a true story. I think real life is so fascinating and would almost always choose to read a true story over a completely fictional one. This book will not disappoint for all of you die-hard historical fiction fans like me. It has all the glamour and intrigue that we’ve come to love…plus you get to stare at that striking book cover! Win-win. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning
From the publisher:
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—one in particular—change the fortunes of Essie and her sisters?
Together with photographer Marcus Holt, Kate Kirby chases the history of the Cheapside gems and jewels, especially the story of a small diamond champlevé enamel ring. Soon, everything Kate believes about her family, gemology, and herself will be threatened.
Book Feature - The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning
Book Feature - The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning
