A swop with Paddy for no.159. Very different and hard to place genre-wise. Part historical romance, part derring-do adventure, part political/psychological thriller.
Siblings separated when young because one is autistic, so mentally hospitalised by parents and replaced by substitute child, much to his sisters distress.
Substitute son visits ‘brother’ in asylum regularly, but then mysteriously disappears. Parents ask the daughter to find him which leads her on a huge adventure and the discovery of true love, first in 1930’s England where she meets, as part of her search a dashing aristocrat, and they travel to Egypt in pursuit of the brother.
Turns out that he has been kidnapped by a villainous baddie to use his archaeological skills to help loot the antiquities, either for gain or to raise funds for Moseley in England (the parents of the separated kids are supporters and quite keen on eugenics- the kids themselves are unrelated by birth, but an experiment by the parents, hence the substitution and hospitalisation of the poor quality child).
Different, interesting, would make a good adventure film.
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