Ocean House Author Series: Fiona Davis
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Ocean House Author Series: Fiona Davis
Join us as Ocean House owner and award-winning author, Deborah Goodrich Royce moderates a conversation with our featured author. This week, New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis will be discussing (and signing) her latest novel: The Stolen Queen.
Tickets include wine, light bites, and a signed copy of the featured book, from Martin House Books.
About the Author:
About Fiona Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of several historical fiction novels set in iconic New York City buildings, including The Magnolia Palace, The Address, The Lions of Fifth Avenue, which was a Good Morning America book club pick, and her most recent novel The Stolen Queen. Her novels have been chosen as “One Book, One Community” reads and her articles have appeared in publications like The Wall Street Journal and O the Oprah magazine. She first came to New York as an actress but fell in love with writing after getting a master’s degree at Columbia Journalism School. Her books have sold more than 1 million copies to date and have been translated into more than twenty languages. She’s based in New York City.
About The Stolen Queen: Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes. New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “party of the year.” Meanwhile, Charlotte is now leading a quiet life as the associate curator of the Met’s celebrated Department of Egyptian Art. She’s consumed by her research on Hathorkare—a rare female pharaoh dismissed by most other Egyptologists as unimportant. The night of the gala: One of the Egyptian art collection’s most valuable artifacts goes missing, and there are signs Hathorkare’s legendary curse might be reawakening. Annie and Charlotte team up to search for the missing antiquity, and a desperate hunch leads the unlikely duo to one place Charlotte swore she’d never return: Egypt. But if they have any hope of finding the artifact, Charlotte will need to confront the demons of her past—which may mean leading them both directly into danger.
Please note, tickets purchased for this event are non-refundable
