It has been awhile since I posted a text fragment, but I loved this little bit of The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
. If you want a few good reasons to read this novel, Jo Walton makes the case here. I will merely add it’s one of the few things I’ve read that reminds me of Connie Willis.
Every schoolboy turned over the final page of Richard III with relief, because now at last the Wars of the Roses were over and they could get on to the Tudors, who were dull but easy to follow.
About Alyx Dellamonica
I live in Vancouver, B.C. and make my living writing science fiction and fantasy; I also review books and teach writing online at UCLA. I'm a legally married lesbian and in my spare time I sing in a choir called Out in Harmony, and maintain a small patio garden. My wife's name is Kelly and we have two cats, Rumble and Minnow.
