02431cam a2200361 i 4500 613877820 TxAuBib 20210109120000.0 200729s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062882028 paperback 0062882023 paperback 9780063007147 hardcover library edition 16.99 0063007142 hardcover library edition 16.99 (OCoLC)1179002231 TxAuBib rda Manning, Kirsty, author. The lost jewels : a novel / Kirsty Manning. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] ©2020. 313, 13 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published as The Lost Jewels in Australia in 2020 by Allen & Unwin. When respected American jewelry historian Kate Kirby receives a call about the mysterious Cheapside jewels, she knows she's on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. But a trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. Returning to Boston, she uncovers a series of sketches 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 champleve ring. Soon, everything Kate believes about her family, gemology, and herself will be threatened. 20210109. Jewelry England London Fiction. Treasure troves Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Historical fiction. Cheapside (London, England) Fiction.