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Title	:	Absent in the Spring
Author	:	Mary Westmacott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 190 pages
Published	:	April 1997 by HarperCollins (first published August 1944)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Romance. Classics

Absent in the Spring

Mary Westmacott

Paperback | Pages: 190 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 11494 Users | 326 Reviews

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Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. This sudden solitude compels Joan to assess her life for the first time ever and face up to many of the truths about herself. Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her.

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Original Title:	Absent in the Spring
ISBN:	0006499473 (ISBN13: 9780006499473)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kate Dawson, Joan Scudamore, Rodney Scudamore, Blanche Haggard, Tony Scudamore, Averil Harrison-Wilmott, Barbara Wray, William Wray, Myrna Randolph, Michael Callaway, Nobby Reid, Charles Edward Sherston, Leslie Adeline Sherston, Edward Harrison-Wilmott, Agnes

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It had been quite easy to fill her life with unimportant trivialities that left her no time for self-knowledge. Astounding and tragic and painful to read. He thought, You are alone and you always will be. But, please God, youll never know it.The astute story of self deception, complacency,, self satisfaction, judgement, blinkered delusion and the most awful of all, the choice not to act once the veil is lifted.I love a good Agatha Christie mystery but this book is in a different class. I am now

This book was a little disturbing for me. It's about a rather smug woman who has to spend a few days at an isolated middle east desert outpost while waiting for a train, with no one to talk to and nothing to do. She starts reminiscing, and has something of a brief mental breakdown when coming to some conclusions about her life. Much of the writing is stream-of-consciousness style in this short book, easy to read, but powerful in it's effect.In another review on goodreads, one reader described

This book made me profoundly uncomfortable, which I believe was the whole point of it. Pick it up when you're in the mood for some self-reflection. It certainly made me want to be a kinder, more loving person & caused me to wonder, uneasily, how my actions and motives might appear to others.

Most people have heard of Agatha Christie and her murder mysteries. However, the six novels she penned under the name of Mary Westmacott are relatively unknown. Unlike her other works, this story does not feature any crime but instead a middle-aged woman stuck in an isolated rest house in the desert for days, waiting for a train to take her back to civilisation. With nothing to do, Joan Scudamore ends up assessing her life and facing some unpalatable truths. Sounds less than thrilling, and

2.5 stars!

Agatha Christie wrote six crime of the heart novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Absent in the Spring is considered by many to be one of her quiet masterpiece novels. Joan Scudmore has it all; she looks good for her age, has a handsome husband with happy children, a respectable house and a good name, but when she is stuck at a desert outpost on the way back to England she is forced to retrace the past. As the past unravels, Joan feels the cracks in her life reveal themselves till she

DNF. Agatha Christie should stick to mysteries. Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott consists of this British woman who has been out to visit her daughter and family in Baghdad. On her way home she is stuck at a rest stop for days with nothing to do but think about her life, a very boring, self righteous, self centered life. I couldn't take anymore of Joan thinking about Joan. I kept hoping that the book would end but I finally just ended it.