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The Christie Affair

Gramont, Nina de. Book - 2022 Fiction / Gramont, Nina , Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Gramont, Nina de 4 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 2.6 out of 5

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"Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche. There's a joy to it. In retrospect, it's frightening, but I daresay in the moment it feels sweet. The way justice feels sweet." The greatest mystery wasn't Agatha Christie's disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it's what she discovered. London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O'Dea became Archie Christie's mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The question is, why? Why destroy another woman's marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O'Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing?"-- Provided by publisher.

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Very Clever! submitted by emroon on July 15, 2022, 3:40pm Very clever book imagining the fictitious circumstances around Agatha Christie’s real life disappearance. I didn’t like the narrator at first, and I’m still not sure about her but it made the book ambiguous and fun. It was a book that made me think.

Soap Opera submitted by sussan on September 7, 2022, 12:33pm After waiting for quite a while I was disappointed. Oh my gosh, it seemed as though I was reading a soap opera.
Finished reading about half and returned to library.

There's a good book in here but... submitted by am_nich21 on August 5, 2023, 10:41pm Quite frankly, I am supremely unimpressed by this book and its author. I feel like the narrator's tragic backstory would have made an excellent stand alone book, but combined with the rest of the novel it added up to a muddled mess full of characters that I had no desire to engage with.

the first person narration was...certainly a choice. Not a particularly good one though.

if you enjoy soap operas, you'll probably enjoy this. I did not.

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PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022.
Year Published: 2022
Description: 311 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250274618

SUBJECTS
Christie, Agatha, -- 1890-1976 -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Mistresses -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.