Overall, it’s worth reading as a Christie fan. It was hard for me to get too engrossed because I hoped they’d all come to a sticky end, but that seemed unlikely to happen considering that this book isn’t really about murder. Normally, this wouldn’t be my kind of thing, but Christie writes it so well that it’s a pleasure to read, even if all of the characters themselves are insufferable. The daughter’s a little bit overly attached, and she doesn’t like the idea of her mother marrying someone new, which is a bit of a shame because someone new just happens to have entered the scene.Ĭue all sorts of arguments between mother, daughter and groom-to-be. Efter Christie's deith in 1976, she wirkit tae keep an mak her mither’s reputation as a literary figure mair strang, an tae pertect the integrity o her wirks. Dauchter tae Agatha Christie an her first husband Archibald Christie. She was first married to Hubert Prichard, and after his death she married Anthony Hicks. Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks (nee Christie 5 August 1919 28 October 2004).
The core of the story itself revolves around the relationship between a mother and her daughter. Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks (ne Christie, previously Prichard) (19192004) was the only child of Agatha Christie. There’s some great stuff about societal standards in there and the difference between men and women. In fact, that’s kind of the reason why I like reading Christie so much in the first place. It’s more like contemporary fiction, but the difference is that this was contemporary fiction from eighty years ago, and that gives it a certain amount of historical interest too. This is one of the books that Agatha Christie wrote and released under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and these books are marked out by the fact that they’re more romance than crime, although I’m not sure that’s really a fair thing to say, especially with this one.
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