The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant #5)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781616817121 (1616817127)
Publish date: November 28th 1995
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Mystery,
Detective,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime
Series: Inspector Alan Grant (#5)
It was a very unexpected read, I must say. When I joined the buddy read, I wouldn't have imagined I would have stumbled upon a story like this, almost experimental in the way it plays around with expectations, and at times doesn't take itself completely seriously. At the same time, I'm the kind of...
Series: Inspector Alan Grant #5 I had a short review all typed up and I accidentally closed the window. *Face palm* Oh well. I'm really glad that this one got chosen for the buddy read because I'd been planning to read it for a while and just needed an excuse. I'd heard good things about it, nat...
This weekend's "let's-forget-the-pandemic" buddy read wasn't the first time I read Josephine Tey's setting-the-record-straight-about-Richard III novel, The Daughter of Time, but it was the first time that I did so by reading it together with her play on the same subject (written under the name Gordo...
This weekend's "let's-forget-the-pandemic" buddy read wasn't the first time I read Josephine Tey's setting-the-record-straight-about-Richard III novel, The Daughter of Time, but it was the first time that I did so by reading it together with her play on the same subject (written under the name Gordo...
This was an excellent book - if there was one downside, it's that it is so revered and adored that my expectations were extremely high. It didn't quite meet them. Nonetheless, for a book that takes place entirely inside of a hospital room, what Tey did here is quite remarkable. And it's all that m...
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