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1800s: A romantic, vivid novel about three women who leave Victorian London for Egypt—a tale of female empowerment, self-discovery, love, and the absolution that comes from facing the secrets of our pasts.
The Sacred River
What you need to know before your trail
Harriet Heron lives amidst the fog in Victorian London and although only 23, yearns for a new life where she can breathe and live freely.
Her mother Louisa and aunt Yael become her companions on a boat journey and escape to Alexandria in Egypt. This is to be a new life and new journey in more ways than one but even before they have disembarked off the boat to their new lives, danger is lurking.
Harriet is not the only one heading towards a new destiny – Louisa has to face up to her past otherwise her daughter could be in danger. When Yael enters Egypt, the country is about to erupt into war and revolt.
Just where are these three ladies headed and what kind of Egypt do they find?
Travel Guide
Harriet is a great character and one we booktrailers were enthralled by – she reads books and discovers her love of a country far far away that she spends all her time dreaming of. One day she gets the chance to go and start a new life and the changes in both her health and future are astounding. Travelling then must have been hard and difficult an a boat to Egypt sounds fraught with danger in the Victorian society but that just adds to the evocative and thrilling nature of the book. we’re there on the boat and feel the excitement and the danger ahead –
“She had seen from the globe what a large country it was. “
“Egypt was coming out to meet them, the Arabs waving and gesturing at the passengers.”
Egypt offers each of the women something different – a change, a fear for the past or a purpose of sorts and we see the dangers and poor site to Egypt all around – these ladies have known wealth and relative comfort but all around them is poverty an a lack of even the most basic heath care. When Yael tries to help, she doesn’t get the welcome she is hoping for.
But for all three ladies, Egypt does offer them a sense of purpose and being away from the stifling atmosphere of london and family duty, not to mention men, there is a new freedom and wisdom to these women . Egypt shone and warned the pages as they did
The narrow footprints she left in the dust reminded harriet of Monsieur Mariette, the great French Egyptologist, opening up a tomb in the desert..
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