Sally Beauman
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Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922 to recover from the typhoid that has killed her mother, eleven-year-old Lucy becomes swept up in the feverish excitement surrounding the search for Tutankhamun's tomb. Through her friendship with Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist, Lucy witnesses firsthand the intrigue, politics, and passions surrounding the quest. Their friendship sustains them throughout childhood, guides them through the class-ridden...
3) Dark angel
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[1990]
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To Victoria, bereft and unhappy, Constance is an enchantress, unfailingly generous and kind ... until Victoria makes the mistake of falling in love. Only then does she feel the force of her godmother's possessiveness, only then does she discover how well versed in the art of deception Constance really is.
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The painting of a portrait brings three sisters--beautiful Julia and intellectual Finn, both in their twenties, and observant, thirteen-year-old Maisie--and three young men--struggling artist Lucas, would-be doctor Nicholas, and Maisie's idol, Roma-blooded Daniel--together at a decaying rural Suffolk abbey for the summer of 1967, which ends in a tragic event that resonates in Daniel's life over twenty years later.
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