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02206aam a22003018i 4500 001 B6617C7C937811EB99EFE00156ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210402010013 008 200911t20212020meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2020041732 020 $a 1432885014 020 $a 9781432885014 035 $a (OCoLC)1195817903 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d KAA $d SILO 100 1 $a Manning, Kirsty, $e author. 245 14 $a The lost jewels : $b a novel / $c Kirsty Manning. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 445 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "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 champlev�e enamel ring. Soon, everything Kate believes about her family, gemology, and herself will be threatened."-- $c Provided by publisher. 941 $a 5 945 $a lpt 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012030444.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20211005010323.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20210703010526.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210504010725.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20210402010938.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B6617C7C937811EB99EFE00156ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search