A review by hashtag_alison
Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie

5.0

I really enjoyed this book, maybe because I read it at a time in my life when it wasn’t too fun inside my own head. And now, with a little distance, it’s interesting to be able to identify people like this in my own life - people that are so loud because they’re terrified of what the silence will unveil in their own head. That is to say, despite the details being things I cannot at all connect with, the book has an emotional truth to it that I have both experienced and seen time after time in others. And those abstract, unfamiliar details are for me a fascinating peak into British upperclass life that has always fascinated me, probably because I started reading Christie’s books at such a young age.

It’s a great book because it would make a terrible movie - the whole thing happens over a few hundred yards and in the main character’s own mind. But not in a Guy In Your MFA kind of way, it’s good.