Dreamers of the Day
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Random House
Published: March 11, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781400064717
Subjects: American Historical Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction - Historical; Historical - General; Fiction / General; General; (Thomas Edward),; 1874-1962; 1888-1935; Churchill, Winston,; Lawrence, T. E.; Women teachers
Description: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American opinions, she becomes a sounding board for these historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. While neither a pawn or a participant at the conference, she is drawn into the geopolitical intrigue surrounding the conference.