Audio Book Reader: Ann Beach

Absent in the Spring
Author: Agatha Christie, writing as Mary Westmacott
Reader: Ann Beach

Written under the pen name of Mary Westmacott, this insightful fictional work shows us another side of the multifaceted talent of the Queen of Mystery. Stranded in the Iraqi desert, waiting for a train, a middle-aged married woman reevaluates her life. How much does she know or understand about herself? How much of what she thinks about herself is a delusion? Writing as Westmacott, Christie's answers to these compelling questions force us to consider our own lives in these terms. "A gem of a psychological portrait."—The New York Herald Tribune