#BookReview: The Christie Affair
Being told through the eyes of her husband’s mistress provides a refreshingly unusual narrator and protagonist, and redeeming the story to some extent she sheds light on the horrors experienced by pregnant unmarried women at the hands of nuns in Ireland at that time.
Nina de Gramont’s latest novel, The Christie Affair, is an international and New York Times best seller, and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club choice.
Normally I love Reese’s choices, but this one was a disappointment.
I was promised a historical fiction mystery filled with intrigue. But the intrigue was half-hearted and the story laden with cliches. Soulmates who can never be together, rugged farm boys who
charm both girls and animals, and war damaged souls who are brought back to ‘life’ by a single kiss.
The story centres around the scandalous disappearance of Agatha Christie for 11 days in 1926.
Being told through the eyes of her husband’s mistress provides a refreshingly unusual narrator and protagonist, and redeeming the story to some extent she sheds light on the horrors experienced by pregnant unmarried women at the hands of nuns in Ireland at that time.
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