I’ve read a lot of books about Christie, in addition to the books she wrote herself. To me, this suggests that she was extremely emotionally engaged in the content of the book, even more so than usual. Increasingly, over the ensuing days, she realizes that she has been far too self-satisfied, and that perhaps others do not perceive her as she might wish, and has always believed.Ĭhristie wrote this book in three days and was exhausted when it was done. All her life she feels she has been perceived a certain way, but when she sees the body language of her husband as he departs the train station after seeing her off on her trip, she realizes that he is relaxed at the thought of his vacation away from her. One of these, Absent in the Spring, is an excellent character study of a woman who is temporarily stranded in the Middle Eastern desert, and starts analyzing herself to great effect. Agatha Christie wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott between the years 19 (when they were actually published).
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