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Morning Star (Raven novel)

Morning Star AuthorSimon RavenCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishSeriesFirst Born of EgyptGenreNovelPublisherFrederick Muller21 June 1984Media typeHardback and paperbackPages188 pp (hardback edition)ISBN0-85634-138-X (hardback edition)OCLC16277397823/.914 20LC ClassPR6068.A9 M67 1984
Morning Star is Volume I of the novel sequence First Born of Egypt by Simon Raven, published in 1984.

Set in 1977, the novel features a large cast of upper-class characters and continues the story from Raven�s Alms for Oblivion novel sequence.

Plot
Part 1: The Order of Baptism
1977. Lord and Lady Canteloupe celebrate the christening of their first son, Sarum, at Lancaster College.

Wealthy scholar Ptolemaeos Tunne intends to research the link between the physical brain, and the immaterial mind and soul. He attends the christening party to scout a list of youths to be test subjects in his experiments, obtaining permission from the children's parents via coercion and blackmail. At the same party, twelve-year-old Marius Stern insults his ten-year-old sister Rosie�s school friend Tessa Malcolm, and Rosie retaliates by wishing bad luck on Marius at cricket in the coming year.

Old friends Fielding Gray and Maisie Malcolm own and operate Buttock's Hotel, where they live with Maisie�s daughter Tessa. The hotel has recently done poor business. Maisie believes that Tessa is producing a strange �aura

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