The Tenth Gift In an expensive London restaurant Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life It appears to be a book of exquisite th century embroidery patterns but on closer examination Julia finds it a

In an expensive London restaurant Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life It appears to be a book of exquisite 17th century embroidery patterns but on closer examination Julia finds it also contains faint diary entries In these, Cat Tregenna, an embroideress, tells how she and others were stolen out of a Cornish church in 1625 by Muslim pirates and taken onIn an expensive London restaurant Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life It appears to be a book of exquisite 17th century embroidery patterns but on closer examination Julia finds it also contains faint diary entries In these, Cat Tregenna, an embroideress, tells how she and others were stolen out of a Cornish church in 1625 by Muslim pirates and taken on a brutal voyage to Morocco to be auctioned off as slaves.Captivated by this dramatic discovery, Julia sets off to North Africa to determine the authenticity of the book and to uncover of Cat s story There, in the company of a charismatic Moroccan guide, amid the sultry heat, the spice markets, and exotic ruins, Julia discovers buried secrets And in Morocco just as Cat did before her she loses her heart.Almost 400 years apart, the stories of the two women converge in an extraordinary and haunting manner that will make readers wonder is history fated to repeat itself
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aka Jude Fisher, Gabriel King with M John Harrison Jane Johnson is from Cornwall and has worked in the book industry for 20 years, as a bookseller, publisher and writer.She was responsible for publishing the works of J R R Tolkien during the 1980s and 1990s and worked on Peter Jackson s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, spending many months in New Zealand with cast and crew Under the pseudonym of Jude Fisher she wrote three bestselling Visual Companions to the films She has also written several books for children.In 2005 she was in Morocco researching the story of a distant family member who was abducted from a Cornish church in 1625 by Barbary pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa which formed the basis for Crossed Bones The Tenth Gift , when a near fatal climbing incident caused her to rethink her future.She returned home, gave up her office job in London, sold her flat and shipped the contents to Morocco In October she married her own Berber pirate and now they split their time between Cornwall and a village in the Anti Atlas Mountains.She still works, remotely, as Fiction Publishing Director for HarperCollins.