The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey's classic novel, in which a detective delves into the historical mystery of the Princes in the Tower - BBC radio
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The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey's classic novel, in which a detective delves into the
historical mystery of the Princes in the Tower
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Episode 10
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10/14. Grant and Carradine turn their attention to Richard III's
successor, Henry Tudor.
Also available Episode 9
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9/14. The Police Inspector and his Research Worker find out more about
the real Richard III.
Episode 8
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8/14. Grant and Carradine look into the events surrounding the
succession of Richard III.
Episode 7
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7/14. Brent tips Grant off about Tyrrell, the murderer of the Princes
in the Tower.
Episode 6
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6/14. Inspector Grant pursues the truth about Richard III and finds
help in an unlikely form.
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Re: Truth is the daughter of time
: : : Can you explain this proverb to me?
: : : I understood it as truth changes with time, but i'm not so sure.
: : : Many thanks to you
: : I read it as meaning that it takes time before the truth can be
seen - don't make a judgement too early, because you may not have
realised all the facts or seen all the evidence. The true nature of a
thing becomes clear over time.
: No doubt. Aulus Gellius, in Attic Nights, wrote about truth, the
daughter of time.
Thank you very much, it makes more sense now, as i'm reading Josephine
Tey's book "The daughter of time".
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The Daughter of Time
(The fifth book in the Alan Grant series)
(1951)
A novel by
Josephine Tey
At Scotland Yard, Inspector Grant has a reputation for being able to
pick them at sight. Now he is in hospital, knowing that no amount of
good behaviour is going to make this anything less than an extended
stay. Yet his professional curiosity is soon aroused. In a portrait of
Richard III, the hunchbacked monster of nursery stories and history
books, he finds a face that refuses to fit its reputation. But how,
after four hundred years, can a bedridden policeman uncover the truth
about the murder of the Princes in the Tower?
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Genre: Crime
Reviewer: Jill Murphy
Summary: Although a little dated, The Daughter of Time is a great
little book. Fictional detective Alan Grant goes in search of the
murderer of the Princes in the Tower. It's nicely written, it's
interesting and it has an admirable distrust of the establishment.
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I was looking on the shelf for Alison Weir's The Princes In The Tower,
when The Daughter Of Time caught my eye...
Scotland Yard's Alan Grant is laid up in hospital with a broken leg.
He's bored out of his tiny mind. There are no mysteries to solve on
the ceiling of his room which is all he has to look at until a
sympathetic friend arrives with a sheaf of pictures. One, a portrait
of a man, strikes him as a mysterious, but sympathetic character. To
his surprise, he discovers it's the famous portrait of Richard III,
child-murderer and usurper of the English throne. Grant is an
experienced detective, a man who prides himself on his ability to
judge a man's character simply by looking at his face. He sees no
guilt in the portrait and, with the aid of a young American
researcher, determines to prove "chummy's" innocence.
And the result is a fascinating little book.
There are books of historical fiction. There are murder-mystery
novels. There are even, horrid little sub-genres of historical murder-
mystery novels regrettably spawned by the excellent Name of the Rose.
The Daughter of Time isn't really any of these things. It's set in the
twentieth century, and its history is described not as fiction but as
reportage of contemporary sources. It's a detective novel, but we
already know whodunit or rather, whodidntdunit. So what we're left
with is a set of fictional characters set upon analysing the evidence
to prove a theory. Ask any historian, and they'll tell you their job
is, for the most part, detection. So, instead of Sherlock Holmes'
cryptic remarks and dramatic final-page denouement speech, we get Alan
Grant's painstaking logical deductions right from the start. And it
really is fascinating.
It's an easy book to read; Tey's style is admirably short in
effulgence and admirably full of terseness and wit. The Daughter in
Time would appeal, I should think, to any reader of detective fiction
together with anyone at all interested in this period of English
history. I read it as a child aged about ten, and I think it would
certainly appeal to any younger person of that age or above who has an
interest in the past, and many do.
One of the things I like most about The Daughter in Time is that
there's a little touch of the Animal Farm about it - I do like to see
anything which - for all the right reasons - asks us whether or not we
can always trust the "official" version of the truth.
Stodgy, reactionary historians, teachers, school textbooks, even the
beatified Thomas More, all get a very-probably justified slating from
Tey's Grant. And a good thing that is too!
Reading The Daughter in Time after so many years, I must admit to
finding it slightly irritating in places. I'm not a fan of the "posh
policemen" found in books by people such as P D James and Ngaio Marsh.
They get on my nerves. Are there any posh, cultured, socialite
detectives at Scotland Yard? Do any of them write poetry or hobnob
with the nation's stage luvvies? Somehow, I doubt it. Such characters
always seem to me to belong to a country of fantasy. Was England ever
full of gentlemen coppers, even in the thirties? Somehow, again, I
doubt it. I don't want to read about "posh policemen". I want to read
about real ones. Posh policemen are, to me, little more than
irritating anachronisms. And there is more than a touch of the posh
policeman about Alan Grant. He does insist on saying things like
"chummy". If Adam Dalgleish irritates you, then I think Alan Grant
would too.
However, this is a nit-pick. The Daughter of Time is a jolly
interesting, jolly entertaining little book. Never dull, it really
does bring a long-dead panoply of characters to life. The history is
genuine, the analysis of it is wonderfully interesting, and if we have
to put up with one-dimensional characters whilst reading, it really
isn't the end of the world. For an afternoon's entertainment, and one
that might excite your interest to further reading on one of history's
best-known controversies, I heartily recommend it.
Alison Weir, by the way, begs to differ with Alan Grant. You'll have
to read both books, and make up your own mind!
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