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theladyhaxton 's review for:
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
Oh, I loved this book. It was the first novel by Josephine Tey that I have read but now I can't wait to read her others. There was just something about it that I can't quite lay my finger on that I adored - I know it definitely had to do with the writing. It was instantly a comforting, cozy read and was really fascinating. I felt like I already knew the characters. I know that some of the historical "fact" she uses was indeed fabricated for the story's effect, but it didn't make it an any less interesting mystery. And of course, some of her views are quite dated - anti-Irish, and vaguely anti-Semitic... of course, there isn't an excuse, but there isn't any more of it than there is in any of the writers from the Golden Age of Mystery (Sayers, Christie, etc). Reading this does make me want to go back and re-read some of English history around the time of Bosworth and the rise of the Tudors. I can't wait to spend more time curled up with her novels in the future.