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Book SynopsisIt''s Death on the Nile meets Downton Abbey, as the action moves between Highclere Castle and Egypt''s Valley of the Kings . . . A gripping story touching on friendship, scholarship, love and family'' Daily Mail
Based on a true story of discovery, The Visitors is New York Times bestselling author Sally Beauman''s brilliant recreation of the hunt for Tutankhamun''s tomb in Egypt''s Valley of the Kings - a dazzling blend of fact and fiction that brings to life a lost world of exploration, adventure, and danger, and the audacious men willing to sacrifice everything to find a lost treasure.
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
Trade Review
[A] beautifully written novel, a tale of intertwined lives that is at once powerful and haunting. Beauman maintains the tension surrounding the tomb's discovery * The Times *
The settings are glamorous and mysterious, the woman who dies in strange, unexplained circumstances is morally dubious and very beautiful, and there are real-life characters, such as Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, searching for Tutankhamun's tomb, to add extra spice * Independent on Sunday *
There is much to delight in this book....Nearly a century after King Tut's discovery, Beauman manages to make both the lives of her fictional characters and those at the historical center of Tut's unearthing riveting * New York Journal of Books *
Interesting, unusual and informative, it is greatly enjoyable * Literary Review *
Colourful and fast-paced, this chunky but highly readable novel offers plenty of intrigue and an interesting portrait of the adult world, as seen through a child's enquiring eyes. * The Lady *
A book of astounding scholarship on Egyptology and the 1920s.... The novel's...writing and characterizations are golden * Booklist, starred review *
