Take a photo of a barcode or cover
amy_h_45 's review for:
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
This was a fun, quick little read. Josephine Tey was one of the Queens of Crime, but this book is a departure from the traditional whodunit. It focuses on a mystery from the past, and involves the cleaver plot device of a Scotland Yard detective using his detecting skills to investigate what really happened to the two York princes that Richard was said to have murdered. I might have found this book more entertaining if I wasn't already quite familiar with Richard III and the revelations were more surprising. I read Shakespeare's Richard III in 2020, and, since I'm a huge fan of the Wars of the Roses and the Tudors, I read more about Richard. I can see that when this book was written it could have caused quite a stir. It challenged much of what the world thought they knew about Richard. Of more contemporary interest to me was the idea of Tonypandy--the euphemism used in the book for history that has persisted over time that is completely untrue. This book is asking the question if those in power, or those who have prevailed, get to write the history, can you really trust the history? I think it's clear that in Richard's case the answer is no. I also think we have plenty of reason to believe that the same answer still applies today. Very enjoyable. I would recommend to anyone!