Child Of The Morning - Softcover

Gedge, Pauline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014027815X ISBN 13: 9780140278156

Publisher: Penguin Canada, 2005

Synopsis

Originally published in l977, this first novel by Pauline Gedge has become an international bestseller and has been translated into 5 foreign languages. A chronicle of passionate intrigue and sensuous exoticism, Child of the Morning resurrects the life of the awesome Hatshepsut, the only woman pharaoh of ancient Egypt, whose name was erased from history by her enemies, outraged at having to bow to a woman's command.

Authentic in all of its detail and rich in powerful imagery, Child of the Morning "combines ancient artifacts, timeless psychology, and sure pacing"(The Globe and Mail), to portray the majesty of its vanished world. Its artistry transcends the boundaries of historical fiction to create a novel of the first order.

About this title

About the Author:

PAULINE GEDGE is the award-winning and bestselling author of thirteen previous novels, ten of which are inspired by Egyptian history. Her first, Child of the Morning, won the Alberta Search-for-a-New-Novelist Competition. In France, her second novel, The Eagle and the Raven, received the Jean Boujassy award from the Société des Gens des Lettres, and The Twelfth Transforming, the second of her Egyptian novels, won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best Novel of the Year Award. Her books have sold more than 250,000 copies in Canada alone; worldwide, they have sold more than six million copies and have been translated into eighteen languages. Pauline Gedge lives in Alberta.

Review:

Gedge sets her living, breathing Queen against a beautifully detailed Egypt that we see as it must have been so long ago.”  Publishers Weekly

"The author’s strong sense of time and place is evident in every scene. A superb portrait of a powerful but very human queen."  Library Journal

"Splendor, splendor everywhere."  Kirkus Reviews

"A rich pageant, satisfying on more levels than simply that of narrative."  Wall Street Journal

"Combines ancient artifacts, timeless psychology and sure pacing.”  Globe and Mail

This is as fine a novel as anyone would want to read.”  Columbus Ohio Dispatch

"A compelling and human story without a single dramatic lapse."   San Francisco Examiner

Epic accounts of feasts and festivals, and a steady flow of details related to life in ancient Thebes . . . the sunny, sweating world of [Egypt] in filmic splendour.”  Vancouver Sun

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 014027815X
• ISBN 13: 9780140278156
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 576