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

3.0

Almost 4-stars; But more importantly-- this Virginia Woolf-like introspective modernist novel has all the hallmarks of Christie's myteries (well-paced, page-turner, layers of "clues") but is not a mystery at all. Nor is it a Romance, per se. Rather, it is a deeply psychological and emotional journey of a woman of middle age, stranded near Iraq in the 1930s and looking back on her life, family, and her own role as a mother and wife in England. Quite stunning in its own way.