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Burden, Clarissa

Clarissa Burden lives in a small village in Kent. She reviews books, has edited a poetry anthology, and is on the judging panel for the annual Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.

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20210901100812 Clarissa Burden on Josephine Tey, Inspector Grant novels, SF Issue 71

A Smooth Man in a Trilby

Clarissa Burden on Josephine Tey’s Inspector Grant novels

I was 13 and mad about horses when I was presented with Brat Farrar. The name of its author, Josephine Tey, meant nothing to me at the time and the title didn’t tell me much either, but it had a picture of a horse on the cover, and that was enough for me. It proved to be the story of an imposture in which the reader knows more than the characters. I read it then and loved it, and I still do. Some years later, browsing through a box of second-hand books outside a small antique shop, I came across another of Tey’s books and, remembering the first, went in and bought it. It cost 10p. Thus began a lifelong devotion.

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