![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the opening chapters Bee and her friend Nancy, a neighbor, discuss all this background. Patrick had apparently written a good-bye apology and it was assumed to be a suicide note although no body was ever found. There used to be another boy in the family, Patrick, Simon’s fraternal twin who was also 13 when their parents died. The four children are Simon age 20, Eleanor age 18 or 19, and the twins Jane and Ruth age 9. It’s worked out and much of the novel concerns horses, training, riding, and contests. However in a few months, when Simon turns 21, he will come into his substantial portion of the inheritance, including Latchetts, which should ease things considerably.ĭuring the time of hardship Aunt Bea has turned the stables to a profit by breeding and training horses in addition to giving riding lessons. The Ashby’s have lived at Latchett’s for generations but for the last several years they have been financially strapped. The Ashby children, orphaned by the sudden death of their parents eight years prior, live at Latchetts estate, along with their father’s spinster sister Bee. It’s often considered one of the best mystery books of all time and Tey is also known for Bret Farrar which she had written a couple years before The Daughter of Time and I’d been wanting to read ever since. ![]() Long ago I read Josephine Tey’s most popular and famous book, The Daughter of Time (1951) and very much enjoyed it. ![]()
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