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piemaid 's review for:
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by Marie Benedict
This book was sort of fine, and somehow kept my interest all the way through. But I do think the author suffered a bit from the fact that this is a known historical moment in a famous writer’s life. We know in the end Agatha is going to show up and be fine. The book feels like the author’s self indulgence of wanting to recreate what might have transpired over those eleven days which I found to be not as intensely compelling if I hadn’t already known a bit about the story.
Kudos to the author for recognizing that an eleven-day woman hunt would not, in itself, be interesting to read chronologically and using the literary device of interspersing those chapters with set up about Agatha Christie’s early adulthood, meeting of her husband, and beginnings of her writing career. Those insights into the between-the-wars time period I found to be most interesting.
I have not read any of Marie Benedict’s other novels, but I definitely will check them out. I am always eager to read about unsung women, and the glimmers of creativity in this book showed promise for those other stories. Plus, I am always happy to support a fellow Pittsburgher!
Kudos to the author for recognizing that an eleven-day woman hunt would not, in itself, be interesting to read chronologically and using the literary device of interspersing those chapters with set up about Agatha Christie’s early adulthood, meeting of her husband, and beginnings of her writing career. Those insights into the between-the-wars time period I found to be most interesting.
I have not read any of Marie Benedict’s other novels, but I definitely will check them out. I am always eager to read about unsung women, and the glimmers of creativity in this book showed promise for those other stories. Plus, I am always happy to support a fellow Pittsburgher!