The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 009953682X Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingReetPetitewing of Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on 12/13/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by wingReetPetitewing from Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Saturday, December 13, 2014
Josephine Tey's classic novel about Richard III, the hunchback king, whose remains were recently discovered. The Daughter of Time investigates his role in the death of his nephews, the princes in the Tower, and his own death on the battlefield.
Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time is an investigation into the real facts behind the last Plantagenet king's reign, and an attempt to right what many believe to be the terrible injustice done to him by the Tudor dynasty.
Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains - a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the the Tudors?
Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard III really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.

Journal Entry 2 by wingReetPetitewing at Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Monday, December 15, 2014
Really good. Made a lot of sense.

Journal Entry 3 by wingReetPetitewing at Beeston, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Monday, December 29, 2014
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Journal Entry 4 by sarahmangan at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Saturday, January 10, 2015
Thank you - this arrived today along with the very apt postcard from Bosworth Field! I really must visit there soon. Look forward to reading this one as I went to the Richard III exhibition in leicester on Christmas Eve and really enjoyed it.

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