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Publication date 1990 Originally published 1990 Publisher Random House (UK) | 3.7/5 Goodreads Series Egyptian Cycle Genre Historical Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 212 pp (paperback edition) ISBN 0-09-959870-1 (paperback edition) Similar Works by Moyra Caldecott, Historical novel books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1989. It was first published in 1990 as Daughter of Ra in paperback by Arrow Books Limited (ISBN 0-09-959870-1).
Contents
Plot introduction
Based on the lives of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun.
Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is part of Moyra Caldecott’s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun and Akhenaten: Son of the Sun. Chronologically, Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra takes place after the other two books.
Plot summary
Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life – not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun.
Daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and the fabled Nefertiti, and married at one time to her father, she is forced to marry Tutankhamun by the powerful General Horemheb at a time of bitter political and religious division. Ankhesenamun is the delicate link between scheming factions.
Left vulnerable by the failure of her plans for the sacred egg of Ra and the death of her young husband, Ankhesenamun is forced into making one last extraordinary and desperate bid for life and happiness...