I have read most of the Pauline Gedge, I love his style, his way of living make everything she tells ... then of course others have recounted the fabulous life has been able to have the fabulous Hatshepsut, in this historical novel, Pauline gives it a more human dimension that other authors, and one begins to love, to suffer with her, she was still the only woman to reign in time pharaoh, she also built many, including the beautiful temple of Deir El Bahari I visited there two years. What woman, she destiny ... I have a 1993 edition, pages start to yellow, but this book is still in good position in my library, and I read it moults once ... this book no hindrance to route around boredom and explanatory details on all subjects, this is not a Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, this is not a detective story or the trilogy Christian Jacq, but worth a visit ...