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Mary Westmacotts

For fifteen years Agatha Christie managed to keep a secret from the world. The secret was that she also published six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. These were not crime novels - Christie described them as "straights novels".

Part romance, part autobiographical, they give a fascinating insight into another aspect of Christie's work and are well worth reading in their own right.

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A Daughter's a Daughter

Jemma 28 Aug 09 at 10:16 a.m. GMT

Widow Ann Prentice seems content with her life in London with her daughter Sarah.  However, meeting Richard Cauldfield changes everything.  A chance at happiness could be foiled by Sarah and Richard’s unreasonable behavior towards each other.  Sacrifices are made and bitter grudges harboured leading to unhappiness for the all the major players in this novel. 

Written originally by Christie as a play, she later adapted it into this novel.  It’s obvious that it would work as a play with a tight cast of characters and not too many scene changes but is it possible that the public would have accepted this as a dramatization by Agatha Christie – after all, where are the dead bodies?

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