The Lost Jewels: A Novel
- Author: Kirsty Manning
- Narrator: Natasha Beaumont
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 8:08:57
Synopsis
From the author of The Song of the Jade Lily comes a thrilling story of a family secret that leads to a legendary treasure.
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.
Based on a fascinating true story, The Lost Jewels is a riveting historical fiction novel that will captivate readers from the beginning to the unforgettable, surprising end.
Chapters
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chapter 01
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chapter 02
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chapter 03
Duration: 04min -
chapter 04
Duration: 11min -
chapter 05
Duration: 20min -
chapter 06
Duration: 10min -
chapter 07
Duration: 14min -
chapter 08
Duration: 04min -
chapter 09
Duration: 12min -
chapter 10
Duration: 13min -
chapter 11
Duration: 13min -
chapter 12
Duration: 07min -
chapter 13
Duration: 22min -
chapter 14
Duration: 29min -
chapter 15
Duration: 16min -
chapter 16
Duration: 14min -
chapter 17
Duration: 20min -
chapter 18
Duration: 07min -
chapter 19
Duration: 16min -
chapter 20
Duration: 19min