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Originally Posted by Victoria
I don’t mean to play the devil’s advocate because I know you’ve tried Grant twice. But I’ll just mention that I decided to give it another try too, given how many folks here seem to enjoy his character. I just finished the last novel, The Singing Sands, and really enjoyed it. This time it was easy to empathize with Grant - he had humour, depth and character, and plenty of little grey cells. And I thought Tey’s writing was very good; lots of atmosphere and great observations about human nature.
Agreed - I was very taken aback when Tey had Carradine just casually throw away four deaths like that. It’s hard to imagine what she was thinking when she wrote that. Maybe coming through the WWII had blunted her feelings?
I realize it’s dangerous to rely on Wikipedia, but it sounds like she first fabricated, and then borrowed what served her case. According to Wikipedia, the Rose of Raby Grant was quoting from doesn’t even exist, nor the history book he read.
“Both Tanner's history and the novel are non-existent. It has been suggested that the title of the latter is derived from Guy Paget's 1937 biography of the same name.”
When I looked, I only found one other book entitled Rose of Raby, but it was published in 2011.
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I found it Victoria," The Rose of Raby " it's a song, and a very nice one at that.
Here's the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPPMCINjVBg