"This book sparkles with pride, passion, love, family, heritage, greed, and mystery. Just like its subject, it's a gem." --Oliver Bullough, author of Butler to the World and Moneyland

"Luxury and obsession collide in this fascinating thriller as finely wrought as the Faberge-style egg masterpiece at its centre. Rich in details, sharp in suspense, and devastating in its revelations. Impossible to put down." --Carol Woolton, author of Vogue: The Jewellery

"Kutchinsky's Egg is a brave and searching excavation of family myth and buried grief. With bold curiosity and palpable heart, Serena Kutchinsky traces how loss, obsession, and silence can shape a destiny--and what it costs to tell the truth about the people we love. This is a memoir about inheritance in all its forms: the stories thrust upon us, the wounds we must carry, and the hard, luminous work of remaking truth from the wreckage left behind." --Sophie Haydock, author of The Flames

"Vulnerable, questing and uniquely moving, Kutchinsky's Egg is a sparkling story of loss, love, and redemption." --Dan Richards, author of Outpost and Overnight

"Kutchinsky's Egg is a wild and fascinating trip, a vivid story of a father's obsession and a daughter's love, but it also explores how we live with our emotional inheritances, and how we ultimately make peace with them." --Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged Grace

"A heady mix of intimate family memoir, refugee history, and exploration of the gilded world of fine jewellery, Kutchinsky's Egg is a thrilling read. At its heart, is a daughter's bold and extraordinary quest to understand her father. This is a mesmerising tale, beautifully told. I could not put it down." --Ariana Neumann, New York Times bestselling author of When Time Stopped

"An extraordinary family story and a strange, poignant portrait of obsession." --Sophie Elmhirst, New York Times bestselling author of A Marriage at Sea

"As Kutchinsky painstakingly unwinds this generational and globe-spanning story--full of twists, betrayals and startling events--her prose sparkles like the diamond-studded objet d'art at the center of it all... Like The Orchid Thief and The Feather Thief, Kutchinky's Egg is a glittering insider's look at a tragically consuming obsession."--Book Page (starred review)

"Spellbinding . . . The author unearths the story with a journalist's doggedness and a novelist's flair for detail, bravely seeking answers to childhood mysteries many would leave unsolved. This is riveting." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Uncovered feuds, betrayals, hatreds, and unlikely alliances . . . [come together in this] engaging tale of a doomed quest." --Kirkus