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A review by deniqd
Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott
2.0
My first and most probably last Mary Westmacott book!
I picked this up because I'm going through a kind of midlife crisis and I keep thinking about my life and that's what the cover said about this book; I knew it would be slow and devoid of action, however...it is just a mumble jumble of stories that Joan remembers while she is alone stranded in the middle of nowhere; the stories don't stitch together and we jump from one to the other without any sense.
We just get to realised that most of times (or probably all the times) perfect lives are not so perfect and I thought it would have some kind of revelation at the end, some kind of life-changing realisation but nope... nothing like that happens.
I picked this up because I'm going through a kind of midlife crisis and I keep thinking about my life and that's what the cover said about this book; I knew it would be slow and devoid of action, however...it is just a mumble jumble of stories that Joan remembers while she is alone stranded in the middle of nowhere; the stories don't stitch together and we jump from one to the other without any sense.
We just get to realised that most of times (or probably all the times) perfect lives are not so perfect and I thought it would have some kind of revelation at the end, some kind of life-changing realisation but nope... nothing like that happens.