Morning Star

It was evening in Egypt, thousands of years ago, when the Prince Abi, governor of Memphis and of great territories in the Delta, made fast his ship of state to a quay beneath the outermost walls of the mighty city of Uast or Thebes. Moving from the time of the young Queen's birth to her eventual maturation, Haggard paints a great picture of the heroine and manages to spin an entertaining yarn at the same time.