Absent in the spring

192 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 1972 by Dell.

ISBN:: 978-0-440-10011-9
OCLC Number:: 4128156

(1 review)

Joan Scudamore's job was to keep her family running smoothly, and her reward was their appreciation. But did they really appreciate her? While enjoying a pleasantly diverting train mix-up in the desert, disturbing memories erase her happiness as she watches her life replay in merciless detail.

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kab reviewed Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie

3 stars

Racist and colonialist right out of the gate. The author tells us in clumsy, halting self-revelations that the protagonist is smug, controlling, and unable to think outside of conventions, that a man's vision of life ought to be prime, while her unloving and dishonest family is portrayed as hard done by. The premise was compelling and the epilogue befitting, true to life.