The Lost Jewels, (Paperback)

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In The Lost Jewels, author Kirsty Manning weaves a fictional narrative around the mystery of the ‘Cheapside Hoard', a large cache of expensive jewellery unearthed during construction in a London street in 1912. The ‘present day' timeline introduces Kate Kirby, an American historian who specialise...

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A historical fiction set in Boston and London, with side trips to India, Sri Lanka, and France. Kate Kirby, an historian, is commissioned to research and write about the Cheapside Hoard, a treasure trove of jewelry discovered under the London Streets in 1912. The story goes back and forth between...

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A treasure trove of jewels found in London in 1912 drives the plot of this novel. Set in two timelines, one in 1912 and one in the present, with short segments in the 1600s, this book manages to move between multiple stories and still feel like one story. Kate Kirby researches historic jewelry an...