This book has been on my TBR list for ages- long before I started blogging. For some reason I always thought it was a sci-fi or speculative fiction novel, something to do with time-travel perhaps. Ha! was I ever wrong. I tried really hard to like it. I was particularly intrigued by Robert Barnard's introduction which told me a lot about the quality of this author's writing- she is not formulaic. It made me eager to read the book, and I did appreciate her skilled use of words. But the few main characters in the hospital room bored me, and unfortunately I don't know enough about British history to care about the mystery itself. The story itself introduces enough facts this shouldn't be a problem, but honestly it just did not hold my interest, thirty pages in my mind was seriously wandering. Too many names. I guess I just proved to myself that crime fiction is really not my thing. And this is supposed to be one of the best books of its genre!
Can anyone tell me the reason daughter is in the title? I'm curious because the man solving the mystery and the historical figure in question were both men...
Abandoned 206 pages, 1951
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Sorry this was a stinker for you.
ReplyDeleteHaha! That's funny about the title not matching the book. Okay, so maybe not really funny, but it does make you wonder, doesn't it? I haven't read anything by Tey. I am sorry this one wasn't better.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there was a reason for it somewhere in the book, but I didn't read far enough to come across it.
ReplyDeleteI think they say at one point that it's a proverb, "Truth is the daughter of time." That is in any case my memory of what the situation is. Shame this didn't work for you! I read it when I was twelve or so, and it blew my tiny mind. :p
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