He was instantly accepted by Lady Tichborne as her son, although other family members did not believe it, and tried to expose him as an impostor. It's a novel about the life of Hereward the Wake/the Watchful, a knight who lived in eleventh century England. And now, as reviewing time runs out, I need to decide which of the remaining two outstanding reviews will get the snappy treatment. Brat Farrar is the lead character of the novel – yes, it is a name, and an almost wilfully terrible one.

Of course a romantic involvement with a character who believes herself to be his sister is not a possibility. Anyway, they’re all pleased to see him and immediately taken in – except for the twin, Simon, who is rather stand-offish and the last to be convinced that Brat is Patrick. I enjoy books in various genres, but especially literary fiction, literature in translation, historical fiction, history, short stories and travel writing and poetry. She has kept the estate running by creating a profitable business from the family stables, so that the family now breeds, sells and trains horses, and give riding lessons.i dont know, except that i remember little facts that stick out in my mind - inconsistencies and whatnot because i am a pretty good close reader.

The plot's plausibility is heavily dependent on a couple of unique coincidences but, once you accept the premise, everything else follows. A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, heir to the family’s sizeable fortune. I thought it was a great evocation of post war, upper middle class life; some elements of Tey’s writing are very much of their time (working class women are either comedy charwomen or vicious and vulgar) but I loved Brat himself and the way I found myself on the side of the imposter.Edinburgh-based Charco Press, founded by Samuel McDowell and Carolina Orloff, aims to change the current literary scene to make room for a kind of literature that has been overlooked’ and ‘expose the UK reader to new and exciting voices.