Tuesday 25 March 2008

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tay

Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard is in hospital. A friend gives him a portrait Richard III, and he remembers him from school history lessons as a hunchbacked ruthless killer, but the face in the picture seems to tell a different story.The Inspector is hooked and set out to investigate the murder of the Princes in the Tower But after four hundred years, is it really possible for a policeman to re write history? This book is dated but wonderful, it made me look at Henry VII in a different light and perhaps Richard really wasn’t as bad as history suggests. Was Henry just better at ‘news management’ than the Plantagenet’s. Did they have ‘spin doctors in those days?

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