bookish1ifedeb 's review for:

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey

5.0

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One of the most enjoyable tales of false identity ever written. A young man returns from his long-ago "death" to resume his life with his aunt, cousin and twin... but is he really who he claims to be? The reader is in on the secret from the start; it's the unraveling of what really happened to Brat Farrar that makes this so engrossing. Tey weaves her magic spell and makes the central character so sympathetic, you can't help rooting for him, even as his own moral urges tease him to reveal his fraud. I read this one every ten years or so, just to enjoy it again as if fresh. A classic.