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sarahrigg 's review for:
Brat Farrar
by Josephine Tey
The prose is deceptively simple but dazzling in that simplicity, and Tey doesn't give two figs about the normal conventions of mystery writing, which make her novels feel fresh. In this novel, an orphan named "Brat" Farrar runs into a man who mistakes him for Simon Ashby. When the stranger realizes that Brat is the doppleganger of Simon, a young man who is shortly to inherit a fortune, he talks Brat into pretending to be Simon's long-lost brother Patrick. Brat decides to give the deception a go less for the money and more for the challenge of trying to pull it off, but develops deeply mixed feelings after he is treated warmly and kindly by all the Ashbys except Simon, who is the only one still suspicious of Brat's claim to be the long-lost brother. I really enjoyed this book a great deal and will be reading more by Tey.