What is of help is her persistence and willingness to adapt to local customs. Here, Jeannette’s modern knowledge is of little help. In Mark Twain’s book, the title character used his knowledge of science to get out of trouble. We discover that beer was very important to Egyptians, and at the time they made beer by fermenting bread in water, which means you needed a straw to drink your beer! The everyday lives and wardrobe (or lack of same) of the locals is painted in great detail. MacLellan spent a lot of time researching ancient Egypt, and it shows. She scoots out of town and heads upriver (which in Egypt is south) and tries to get her bearings. There’s a cat-headed girl, freshly booted out of her litter, sent to “help” Jeannette, and Jeannette’s managed to come afoul of the Slave Master of Thebes. The tomb’s occupant, a mummy, wants her to find his ba or soul. Fortunately, the same powers that transport Jeannette allow her to understand and speak the local language.īut that’s about the only good thing going for Jeannette. Thanks to unknown powers, Jeannette is transported to a time when the tomb was fairly new, that of Old Kingdom Egypt. At the start of the story, American tourist Jeannette Walker, traveling in Egypt, decides to go off the beaten path to see a newly-discovered and thus unspoiled ancient tomb. In the tradition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court comes the debut novel of author Vanessa MacLellan, Three Great Lies. Price: $5.99 (ebook) $16 (trade paperback)
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