Brat Farrar is a 1949 crime novel written by Josephine Tey.
The story centres around the Ashbys, an English country-squire family.
Their centuries-old family estate is Latchetts, in the fictional village
of Clare near the south coast of England. It takes place in the 1940s,
after World War II. The title character, Brat Farrar, is a young man recently returned to
England from America. He was a foundling. At the age of 13, the
orphanage placed him in an office job, but he ran away instead. He ended
up in the western US, where he worked at ranches and stables for
several years, and became an expert horseman until a fall injured his
leg and he was left with a limp
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