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A TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL and LITERARY REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR: ''Flawless'' SUNDAY TIMES *** ''A rich and fascinating puzzle'' MAIL ON SUNDAY *** ''I completely lost myself to this book for a few days'' LUCY FOLEY *** ''A deliciously involving page turner'' GUARDIAN
Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family''s insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over England. Clues and puzzles in the pages of TheGolden Bones led readers to seven sites where jewels were buried: one by one, the tiny golden bones were dug up until only Elinore''s pelvis remained hidden.
The book was a sensation. A community of treasure hunters called the Bonehunters formed, in
