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Kirsty Manning

Biography

Kirsty Manning

Kirsty Manning grew up in northern New South Wales, Australia. She has degrees in literature and communications and worked as an editor and publishing manager in book publishing for over a decade. A country girl with wanderlust, her travels and studies have taken her through most of Europe, the east and west coasts of the United States, as well as pockets of Asia. Kirsty’s journalism and photography specializing in lifestyle and travel regularly appear in magazines, newspapers and online. She lives in Australia.

Kirsty Manning

Books by Kirsty Manning

The Lost Jewels
by Kirsty Manning - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

When 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 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 is visiting her brother when a workman’s pickaxe strikes through the floor of an old tenement house in Cheapside. 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?