(Excerpt )The boy who remembered ancient Egypt… the young single mother who discovered adventure in Egypt. A novel, 5 stars, Amazon.

"ONE DAY I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING."

“He was around six when I took him on his first visit to the museum. He gawked at a withered mummy in a painted wooden mummy case. There was a sky light illuminating the Egyptian gallery and the light streaming down seemed to fall on him like a revelation. I saw tears squeeze out of his eyes.” “These are my people,’ he yelled out, making heads in the museum turn. “Sh-sh, Cooper. You’ll scare the visitors,” I said. “Do you smell that?”’ he said. I sniffed. A sweet smell hung in the air. “What is it?” “It’s them.” It was probably just the scent of a floor polish or the cleaner they use on the glass cases. But my Cooper thought differently. To him it was the memory of secret balms used in mummification. He looked in wonder at grains of dust that floated in the light from the ceiling as if mummy dust had seeped out of the mummy cases, the air-borne atoms of long dead Egyptians. He breathed it in, filling his chest. It freaked me a bit, I can tell you. But he was enraptured. I couldn’t drag him out of the place, but then he developed a tummy ache. He gets a lot of those. I’ve taken him to the doctor, but they can’t find anything. I think Cooper just gets too excited.” “And this behaviour of Cooper’s - does it continue?” the researcher encouraged me to go on. “Disturbingly, yes. A recent example. I won one of those automatic bread makers in a magazine competition, and he woke up in the morning with the yeasty warm smell of baking bread filling the air. It was still dark in the house. The aroma of baking bread seemed to electrify him. “That’s Kemet,” he said, running into my room. “That’s the smell of Kemet in the early morning, when it’s still dark.” “To Cooper it was the smell of ancient Egypt at dawn, of mud ovens and baking bread. He breathed it in so deeply he went dizzy. “When he was seven, he looked at a map of excavation sites in a book about Egypt and he began pointing at places between the marks on the map. “There are other tombs here and here..."