by Barbara Ewing · Sphere · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780751537611
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«Rosetta» is the historical novel by Barbara Ewing, published by Sphere in paperback (438 pages, in English).
Rose grows up fascinated by words and by Rosetta, the Egyptian city from which she takes her name. After marrying Harry Fallon and discovering a terrible secret, Rose travels to Egypt. There Rose crosses paths with the French Revolution, the Anglo-French rivalry, and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, while seeking truth and the meaning of words.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, with a plot set during the French Revolution and nineteenth-century Egypt.
Barbara Ewing is a New Zealand actress, playwright and novelist based in the UK. In the 1980s Ewing played the character Agnes Fairchild in British comedy series Brass. Ewing's novel The Petticoat Men was shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award in 2015.
