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The Christie Affair

The Christie Affair

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The next morning, no one can find her and Agatha's car is discovered hanging precariously off the edge of a chalk pit.

It is a fascinating and shocking fictional account of what she tells (or imagines) happened and why. Archie tells Nan to stay away for the time being, and Nan goes North to Yorkshire to stay at the Bellefort Hotel and Spa.In some ways the plot mimics a REAL Agatha Christie story, with plenty of surprises and twists, and an unexpected murderer revealed at the climax. When I forgot that this was in part focused on Agatha's disappearance, I relaxed into the story and enjoyed it a lot. Instead, this Nan revels in her own agency, coolly confessing that she staked out Archie for a long time and engineered the affair. After twelve years of marriage, she loved him blindly and hopefully, as if in her thirty-six years of life she’d learned nothing about the world.

All of the characters are so well developed though (even though I can't say that I liked Nan really but her storyline worked, so it didn't really bother me), and the plot is so tightly woven that even while I figured out most of it along the way, there were still a few moments that caught me off guard! Motives for Christie’s disappearance range from the cynical (she was a publicity hound who wanted to boost sales of her books) to the medical (she was in a “fugue state” caused by a concussion when her car crashed) to the compassionate (Christie was suicidal over the end of her marriage, especially since that blow followed quickly after the death of her cherished mother). She was Sister Mary Clare, the nun Nan tried to strangle and he was Father Joseph, the priest who sexually assaulted girls at the convent. As I read it I adapted to the fact that it's so much more fiction than historical which was fine with me. Nan’s friend Bess received a letter from Fiona that Sister Mary Clare and Father Joseph fell in love and were renouncing their vows.If you want a different take on the events in Harrogate over those eleven days then this book may well be for you. Nan is our chief narrator, and in de Gramont’s novel she shucks off the role as Archie’s passive mistress. I enjoyed the characters as they all came across as real, despite the sometimes dreamlike state of the story.



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