Secrets of a Sun King: THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION Guardian
By (Author) Emma Carroll
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
26th September 2018
3rd March 2022
Main - Re-issue
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
823.92
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 21mm
274g
It's November, 1922. In a valley in Egypt the tomb of a long dead pharaoh is about to be discovered. The world watches and waits for news with baited breath. Thirteen-year-old Lilian Kaye, who lives in a flat above a shop in London, is eagerly following the story. One morning the news takes a sinister turn: a man- a famous Egyptologist- disappears. All that remains of him are his feet. Then Lil's grandfather is taken suddenly ill, and when a mysterious package turns up for him from the Egyptologist, Lil starts to believe there is truth to the rumours of a pharaoh's curse.
Emma Carroll was a secondary school English teacher for many years. The Lost Boy is Emma's seventh novel; she has also written the highly-acclaimed Frost Hollow Hall, The Girl Who Walked on Air, In Darkling Wood,The Snow Sister,Strange Star and Letters from the Lighthouse. She lives in the Somerset hills with her husband and two terriers.