Absent in the Spring
Agatha Christie writing as Mary Westmacott
An explanation seems mandatory. Very few people like Christie's "Westmacott" novels, because, let'sfaceit, like with her supernatural thrillers, her 'family dramas' tended to go overboard a bit ( I guess when you're stuck writing detective novels for thirty years, any chance you get at writing anything different is equivalent to a six-year-old on a sugar high when his parents are out of town.)
I'm not sure anyone hates this book. But I've never met anyone who obsesses over the book like I do. It's just one of those inexplicable things: I don't know whether the novel's good or bad, but I loved it when I first read it years ago, and I wasn't disappointed when I re-read it much later.
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