While the Light Lasts

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Summary

Genre: Romance

Format: Short Story

Synopsis

In the excruciating heat of the African sun George Crozier is travelling with his new wife, Deidre. They have not been married long and George is aware his wife’s thoughts are with her first husband who was killed in this part of Africa during the war. In this hauntingly beautiful tale, Deidre is forced to confront the reality of her circumstances: “While the light lasts I shall remember, and in the darkness I shall not forget”.

First published in 1924 in Novel Magazine, this story later provided the plot for Giant’s Bread, published in 1930. Giant’s Bread was the first of Christie’s so-called romantic novels which were published under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

Published in While the Light Lasts and Other Stories and also in The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories in the US.

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