{"product_id":"kirsty-manning-the-lost-jewels-9780062882028","title":"The Lost Jewels","description":"From\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe author of The Song of the Jade Lily comes a thrilling story of a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfamily secret that leads to a legendary treasure. Why would someone bury a bucket of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nprecious jewels and gemstones and never return?   Present Day. When respected American jewelry historian,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nKate Kirby, receives a call about the Cheapside jewels, she knows she's on the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nbrink of the experience of a lifetime.  But the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthat have long been buried by her own family. Back in Boston, Kate has\n\u003cbr\u003e\nuncovered a series of sketches in her great-grandmother's papers linking her\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsuffragette great-grandmother Essie to the Cheapside collection. Could these\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsketches hold the key to Essie's secret life in Edwardian London?  In\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe summer of 1912, impoverished Irish immigrant Essie Murphy happens to be\n\u003cbr\u003e\nvisiting her brother when a workman's pickaxe strikes through the floor of an\n\u003cbr\u003e\nold tenement house in Cheapside, near St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The\n\u003cbr\u003e\nworkmen uncover a stash of treasure-from Ottoman pendants to Elizabethan and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJacobean gems-and then the finds disappear again! Could these jewels-one in\n\u003cbr\u003e\nparticular-change the fortunes of Essie and her sisters?  Together\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwith photographer Marcus Holt, Kate Kirby chases the history of the Cheapside\n\u003cbr\u003e\ngems and jewels, especially the story of a small diamond champlevé enamel ring.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSoon, everything Kate believes about her family, gemology, and herself will be\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthreatened.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBased on a fascinating\n\u003cbr\u003e\ntrue story, The Lost Jewels is a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nriveting historical fiction novel that will captivate readers from the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nbeginning to the unforgettable, surprising end.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n ","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53496484626774,"sku":"9780062882028-G","price":8.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780062882028_1.jpg?v=1781683269","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/kirsty-manning-the-lost-jewels-9780062882028","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}