Kutchinsky's Egg

Author: Serena Kutchinsky

Precious metal, precious stones & jewellery: artworks & design | Memoirs | Intergenerational relationships

Published on 26^th March 2026 by Simon & Schuster Ltd (Gallery) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 368 pages, 1 x 8pp colour plate section
226mm x 144mm x 30mm | 440g

***As serialised in the Guardian***�Extraordinary� SOPHIE ELMHIRST, author of Maurice and Maralyn�Sparkles with passion, greed and mystery� OLIVER BULLOUGH, author of Butler to the World��Spellbinding� LAURA MILLER, Slate�A jewel of a thriller� CAROL WOOLTON, author of If Jewels Could TalkWhen she was ten years old, Serena Kutchinsky�s father Paul was consumed by a wild dream. Heir to the legendary jewellery company House of Kutchinsky, he longed to create a jewelled egg more beautiful than any of Faberg�s masterpieces. It would be the largest and most spectacular in the world.

Standing two feet tall, made of solid gold, dripping with rare pink diamonds and housing a tiny enamelled library, the egg was astonishing. But when he failed to sell it, everything started to unravel. The House of Kutchinsky collapsed, Paul�s marriage fell apart, and within ten years he was dead. The egg was seized by its creditors and disappeared without trace.

For thirty years its location remained a mystery, until it began to obsess Serena, too. Why did her father risk everything for this outlandish creation, and where in the world was it � valued by now at �30 million? Intent on finding answers, she traces a story that begins in London�s East End, with the arrival of her great-great grandparents as Polish-Jewish immigrants, and takes her to the other end of the world. It�s a journey that transforms her understanding of her father, her childhood and herself.

�A brightly painted tale, with everything you could want from a book about a dynasty of jewellers� SUNDAY TIMES