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Original Title: Absent in the Spring
ISBN: 0006499473 (ISBN13: 9780006499473)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Kate Dawson, Joan Scudamore, Rodney Scudamore, Blanche Haggard, Tony Scudamore, Averil Harrison-Wilmott, Barbara Wray, William Wray, Myrna Randolph, Michael Callaway, Nobby Reid, Charles Edward Sherston, Leslie Adeline Sherston, Edward Harrison-Wilmott, Agnes
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Absent in the Spring Paperback | Pages: 190 pages
Rating: 4.15 | 11494 Users | 326 Reviews

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Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. This sudden solitude compels Joan to assess her life for the first time ever and face up to many of the truths about herself. Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her.

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Title:Absent in the Spring
Author:Mary Westmacott
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 190 pages
Published:April 1997 by HarperCollins (first published August 1944)
Categories:Fiction. Mystery. Romance. Classics

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Having read so many Agatha Christie novels - I have not (untill now) read any of the Mary Westmacott books. I know from a biography I read recently that they are quite different, not featuring detectives and murders. Her Mary Westmacott novels (of which I believe there are 6) are about crimes of the heart. This one Absent in the spring, I found really good indeed. Middle aged Joan Scudamore is totally isolated, while stranded in a rest house in Iraq, her lonlieness playing on her mind, allows

This book made me profoundly uncomfortable, which I believe was the whole point of it. Pick it up when you're in the mood for some self-reflection. It certainly made me want to be a kinder, more loving person & caused me to wonder, uneasily, how my actions and motives might appear to others.

This novel has made me introspective. The main character is a smug woman who has detached herself from the realities in her life because she just doesn't want to deal with it.Dame Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott, masterfully follows the unfolding of Joan Scudamore's self realization. Joan is stranded at a desert way station while on her way back from visiting her daughter in Baghdad. She runs out of reading materials, and has no diversions whatsoever, and thus is forced to spend some

If you had nothing but yourself to think about what would you find out about yourself?From 1944, this is the third of six novels Agatha Christie published under the alias Mary Westmacott. Instead of a murder mystery, its an elegant character study that reminded me most of The Enchanted April and The Rectors Daughter. Joan Scudamore, traveling back to London from Baghdad after a visit to her grown daughter, encounters bad weather and misses her train, which leaves her stranded in the desert for a

This has been written by Agatha in a completely different genre and style. The plot is quite intense and as a reader you are stuck by the writers brilliance in being able to capture the insecurities of the protagonist so well. And in the end she succeeds in establishing the contrast so well. Brilliant read

What a clever way to tell a story.Glad I knew nothing about thethe book as I started listening.Not as enjoyable listening with aa text to speech app but,still entertaining.Clean except for a few foul words.

A few days before, an old school friend of Joan Scudamore had wondered "what, if you had nothing to do but think about yourself for days and days, you might find out about yourself." And now that Joan finds herself in just that position, stuck in limbo waiting for a train, she learns that all that she'd assumed about her life and her family may not have been as she imagined.Will the mental crisis she experiences, and the reevaluation of relationships that she undergoes, represent a sea change in