![]() ![]() As the two girls spy on the grown-ups and try to understand the truth behind their evasions, a lifelong bond is formed. When she meets Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist, her life is transformed. As she struggles to comprehend an adult world in which those closest to her are often cold and unpredictable, Lucy longs for a friend she can love. 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. ![]() I knew what it meant, that clasp and the mischievous grateful glance that accompanied it: it meant I was thanked, that there were secrets here. Under the tablecloth, Frances's hand reached for mine and clasped it. ![]()
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