On the advice of the local museum director, she hires Basil Brown, an amateur archaeologist and soil expert, to unearth the mounds.The rest is history - and the stuff of this gently understated historical novel. Pretty, has finally decided to excavate the mounds on the estate - she and her husband had often discussed the prospect, and with war looming, she felt time was short. It's 1939 on the eve of Britain entering World War II and the German blitz. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMESĪ literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II
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