karenllowe 's review for:

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

3.0

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Interesting presentation of historical inaccuracy - the premise and the execution was well done. I'm not up on English history so I had to consult Wikipedia and more to figure out who was who, especially because there are multiple Richards/Edwards/Henrys... and sometimes they're also Dukes and then Kings or they're call Rick/Eddy/Hal.... I eventually made my own tree-of-names to keep track. I thought Tey could have reduced that confusion, even in the minor characters - for instance Nurse Ingram is The Midge, Nurse Darroll is The Amazon... Perhaps some characters were known to fans of her writing, but for me (new to Tey), the confusion frustrated me on occasion. I did, however, enjoy the discovery process and the new knowledge I now have of that time period.