Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 written by Moyra Caldecott

Moyra Caldecott

Moyra Caldecott is a British author of historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. Her works include "Guardians of the Tall Stones" and The Egyptian Sequence....

 in 1989. It was first published in 1990 as Daughter of Ra in paperback by Arrow Books Limited (ISBN 0-09-959870-1).

Plot introduction

Based on the lives of Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun , Egyptian , ; approx. 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty , during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom...

 and Ankhesenamun

Ankhesenamun

Ankhesenamun was a queen of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. Born as Ankhesenpaaten, she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti, and became the Great Royal Wife of her cousin Tutankhamun. The change in her name reflects the changes...

.

Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is part of Moyra Caldecott

Moyra Caldecott

Moyra Caldecott is a British author of historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. Her works include "Guardians of the Tall Stones" and The Egyptian Sequence....

’s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun

Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun

Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1989. It was first published in Great Britain in 1989 as a paperback by Arrow Books Limited .-Plot introduction:...

and Akhenaten: Son of the Sun

Akhenaten: Son of the Sun

Akhenaten: Son of the Sun is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1986. It was first published in 1986 as The Son of the Sun in hardback by Alison & Busby, UK.-Plot introduction:...

. Chronologically, Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra takes place after the other two books.

Plot summary

Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life – not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun.

Daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten

Akhenaten

Akhenaten also spelled Echnaton,Ikhnaton,and Khuenaten;meaning "living spirit of Aten") known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV , was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC...

 and the fabled Nefertiti

Nefertiti

Nefertiti was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they started to worship one god only...

, and married at one time to her father, she is forced to marry Tutankhamun by the powerful General Horemheb

Horemheb

Horemheb was the last Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty from either 1319 BC to late 1292 BC, or 1306 to late 1292 BC although he was not related to the preceding royal family and is believed to have been of common birth.Before he became pharaoh, Horemheb was the commander in chief...

 at a time of bitter political and religious division. Ankhesenamun is the delicate link between scheming factions.

Left vulnerable by the failure of her plans for the sacred egg of Ra and the death of her young husband, Ankhesenamun is forced into making one last extraordinary and desperate bid for life and happiness...

Characters in "Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra"

• Tutankhamun – the main protagonist
• Ankhesenamun – half sister and wife to Tutankhamun
• Horemheb – General in Pharaoh's army

Release details

• 1990, UK, Arrow Books Limited ISBN 0-09-959870-1, Pub date ? ? 1990, paperback
• 2000, UK, Mushroom Publishing ISBN 1-899142-62-2, Pub date ? ? 2000, ebook
• and subsequently in other eBook formats over the next three years.
• 2004, UK, Bladud Books ISBN 1-84319-266-7, Pub date 21 April 2004, paperback (a print on demand
  Print on demand
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  paperback)