![]() She was just beginning to make a life for herself in England when she was called back to Inverness to look after her widowed father and remained living there for the rest of her life. It paints a slightly nostalgic, romantic view of middle-class English life common in a number of Josephine Tey’s books, which might well be explained by the author’s working-class Scottish background. This is a fast-paced psychological mystery novel with well-rounded characters. The title character is a young man convinced to impersonate Patrick Ashby, the heir to the Latchetts estate, and Brat is increasingly caught up in trying to discover what really happened to Patrick, with deadly consequences. ![]() ![]() “ Brat Farrar” is a book I loved as a teenager so re-reading it is always like a home-coming. ![]()
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