Categories: How can this man, who was a good administrator and excellent military general, also be capable of such unscrupulous and villainous behaviour. The Daughter of Time book. Naturally, this immediately led me to pick up Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time, a book I’ve read so many times that I’m now on my third copy. Editorial Reviews--From The Kindle Book Review: While a time-travel romance, the relationship between Meg and Prince Llewlyn of Wales is not cliché. Furthermore, Richard couldn’t have done it because he had many other Yorkist nieces and nephews still living, and would therefore have had to kill them all to take the throne, again conveniently overlooking the reality of the situation in favour of genealogical theorising. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), © 2020 Macmillan | All stories, art, and posts are the copyright of their respective authors, How Can This Be So Gripping? Learn how your comment data is processed.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2013. Lanier’s memoir is now on the short list of books I’ll give, when the time comes, to my own pregnant daughters.
The inspector simply doesn’t believe the man in the portrait, a mere painting remember, was capable of the crimes he was accused of, which seems a worryingly generous, and simplistic, deducted by an apparently celebrated police inspector. Richard’s face in a portrait doesn’t fit the face of a killer. A must read for history and mystery buffs, Good but far from the greatest mystery ever, Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2020. I somehow fail to see a real-life inspector acting in such a manner. But you can’t help thinking about it when you read The Daughter of Time because the subject of The Daughter of Time is how a lot of received history is bunk. A fantastic novel, but very questionable as a genuine historical account. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. She’s published two poetry collections and nine novels, most recently the Hugo and Nebula winning Among Others. (I genuinely wouldn’t care to guess which.). Tey does an effective job of rehabilitating Richard’s reputation from Tudor propaganda. Daughter of Time tells the story of a young widow, Meg, healing from the pain of a brief, unhappy marriage, who falls through time into the Middle Ages — and into the arms of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the last Prince of Wales. It’s not a historical novel, it’s a detective story, and when you think about it it’s very odd. That’s high praise to live up to, but the author began the book with higher aims than most mystery writers ever aspire to, and she made it clear in the first chapter that she wasn’t going to follow the traditional path to achieve them.

He is bored by the hospital, by his nurses, and by his available fiction choices—each one a type, a frothy romance, a cosy detective story, a noir, a Regency, a modern romance etc. By chapter 6, Grant encounter’s Thomas More and his exaggerated and embellished work on Richard III, much of which provided the basis for Shakespeare’s ridiculous caricature of the king.
I have reread it several times since, still loving it, and it ended up launching a book club.