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Book Review of Dreamers of the Day

Dreamers of the Day
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Agnes Shanklin loses here entire family to the 1918 flu epidemic. She uses her inheritance to go to Egypt and arrives as the Cairo Peace Conference convenes. Her life is transformed just as Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell change the map of the Middle East.
I like reading about women traveling alone and I find Lawrence of Arabia a fascinating character, so this book goes on my all-time favorite list.