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A review by theburningclem
Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie
5.0
The most emotionally compelling work of Agatha Christie’s I’ve ever read. And I’ve read almost all of them.
It’s a devastating psychological breakdown following a woman trapped in an empty foreign place and forced to stare inward. With nothing to focus her mind on, she endeavors to recall happy memories, only to realize that everything she thought was happy was merely her imagination. It’s a tragedy of such bottom-dropping-out-of-your-stomach desperation as to verge on horror.
It’s a devastating psychological breakdown following a woman trapped in an empty foreign place and forced to stare inward. With nothing to focus her mind on, she endeavors to recall happy memories, only to realize that everything she thought was happy was merely her imagination. It’s a tragedy of such bottom-dropping-out-of-your-stomach desperation as to verge on horror.