''The Key of Life'' is a 1928 novel by the British writer

Francis Brett Young Francis Brett Young (29 June 1884 – 28 March 1954) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, composer, doctor and soldier. Life Francis Brett Young was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire. He received his early education at Iona, a pri ...

.Hall p.167 It was part of a group of cultural works that acknowledged a new

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in the wake of the discovery of Tutankhamun tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. Ruth Morgan, a young woman living in a village in the

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, falls in love with an archaeologist working on a nearby dig after he falls ill. She follows him to

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where he is employed on a major excavation.

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* Michael Hall. ''Francis Brett Young''. Seren, 1997. 1928 British novels Novels by Francis Brett Young Novels set in Egypt Heinemann (publisher) books Alfred A. Knopf books {{1920s-novel-stub