Daughter of Time Discussion Guide
I. Characters
A. Alan Grant
-works as a police officer at Scotland Yard
-in hospital because he fell through a trap door chasing a criminal; "bed-borne" (12)
-has a broken leg
-very bored (11) received many books to read, but has no interest in them because they're all the same to him, "Authors today wrote so much to a pattern that their public expected it." (14)
-has a passion for faces (19)
-could always tell a person by their face (27)
-did not believe in a criminal face, "If there was only one kind of crime, it might be possible; but crimes being wide as human nature, if a policeman started to put faces into categories he would be sunk.(28)"
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