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The lost jewels : a novel / Kirsty Manning.

Summary:

When respected American jewelry historian Kate Kirby receives a call about the mysterious Cheapside jewels, she knows she's on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. But a trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. Returning to Boston, she uncovers a series of sketches 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 champleve ring. Soon, everything Kate believes about her family, gemology, and herself will be threatened.

Record details

ISBN: 9780063007147
ISBN: 0063007142
ISBN: 9780062882028
ISBN: 0062882023
Physical Description: 313, 13 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020