The Visitors
(Sprache: Englisch)
A beautifully written and epic story of love, regret and secrets, set against the haunting, troubled and exotic background of 1920s Egypt.
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A beautifully written and epic story of love, regret and secrets, set against the haunting, troubled and exotic background of 1920s Egypt.
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Under the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous grateful glance that accompanied it: it meant I was thanked, that there were secrets here. I could accept that. I too had secrets - who doesn't?
Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922 to recover from the typhoid that killed her mother, eleven-year-old Lucy is caught up in the intrigue and excitement that surrounds the obsessive hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb. As she struggles to comprehend an adult world in which those closest to her are often cold and unpredictable, Lucy longs for a friend she can love. When she meets Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist, her life is transformed. As the two girls spy on the grown-ups and try to understand the truth behind their evasions, a lifelong bond is formed.
Haunted by the ghosts of her past, the mistakes she made and the secrets she kept, Lucy disinters her past, trying to make sense of what happened all those years ago in Cairo and the Valley of the Kings. And for the first time in her life, she comes to terms with what happened after Egypt, when Frances needed Lucy most.
Autoren-Porträt von Sally Beauman
Beauman, SallySally Beauman read English at Girton College, Cambridge. She worked as a journalist in America and Britain before beginning to write fiction. She is the author of six previous novels, including the acclaimed Rebecca's Tale.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sally Beauman
- 2014, 544 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little
- ISBN-10: 0751551686
- ISBN-13: 9780751551686
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.02.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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