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Original Title:	Absent in the Spring
ISBN:	0006499473 (ISBN13: 9780006499473)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kate Dawson, Joan Scudamore, Rodney Scudamore, Blanche Haggard, Tony Scudamore, Averil Harrison-Wilmott, Barbara Wray, William Wray, Myrna Randolph, Michael Callaway, Nobby Reid, Charles Edward Sherston, Leslie Adeline Sherston, Edward Harrison-Wilmott, Agnes

Absent in the Spring Paperback | Pages: 190 pages

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Title	:	Absent in the Spring
Author	:	Mary Westmacott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 190 pages
Published	:	April 1997 by HarperCollins (first published August 1944)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Romance. Classics

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Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. This sudden solitude compels Joan to assess her life for the first time ever and face up to many of the truths about herself. Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her.

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Very unexpectedly good. Agatha Christie writing as Mary Westmacott.Nothing actually happens in this book; it's all about self-discovery:A woman races off from England to the Middle East to help her ailing daughter, and along the way there and back learns about herself. She learns that she is controlling. That she controls others. That she controls herself. That others in her life are not happy. That she is not happy. Sounds dreadful, but somehow it all ties together and I liked Miss Christie's

A fascinating portrait of a remarkably unobservant and unaware woman, Joan Scudamore. Christie, as Westmacott, takes us into Joans mind as she waits for a train in the desert, on her way back home to England. We hear Joans thoughts about her husband, her three children, her marriage, raising the children, and a little about people in their lives. While Joan states her views on these people and what a good wife and mother she is and marriage she has, it becomes rapidly clear that the people

It had been quite easy to fill her life with unimportant trivialities that left her no time for self-knowledge. Astounding and tragic and painful to read. He thought, You are alone and you always will be. But, please God, youll never know it.The astute story of self deception, complacency,, self satisfaction, judgement, blinkered delusion and the most awful of all, the choice not to act once the veil is lifted.I love a good Agatha Christie mystery but this book is in a different class. I am now

Agatha Christie said that Absent in the spring was the most personal book she published. Extract from her biography: Shortly after that, I wrote the one book that has satisfied me completely. It was a new Mary Westmacott, the book that I had always wanted to write, that had been clear in my mind. It was the picture of a woman with a complete image of herself, of what she was, but about which she was completely mistaken.I wonder if that is how she felt about her first marriage. If she thought

Wow, such a different story by Agatha Christie. I wonder if this is how she felt when she disappeared. The pain and sorrow jumped off the page!

I'm not sure what to think of this book. Only that I didn't really enjoy reading it. It was an interesting idea, a woman having to come to terms with herself, but the execution was lackluster. It just seemed to drone on and on and on with no redemption in sight. And once we do, it's gone in the blink of an eye. Wish I loved Agatha Christie as Mary Westmacott, but it seems that this other side of her is unknown for somewhat of a reason.

Its always surprising when you find a masterpiece of writing. I read it in one day, a short 250pages but it was totally fascinating. What happens when you have 5 days alone with nothing to do, and nothing to read and no one to talk to? Sounds scary and boring, well it wasnt boring, Joan is endlessly entertaining, loved the characters, loved the subtle discoveries in Joans life. A truly amazing example of great writing.