Review: The Christie Affair

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

DNF at 34%.

This sounded awesome, the story of what happened to Agatha Christie when she disappeared for eleven days, told by her husband's mistress.

Well I'm over a third of the way through and so far there's been precious little of Agatha. There's been her husband's scheming mistress Nan, there's been a retired police officer, there's been her husband wandering the streets of London blah, blah, blah but not Agatha.

Also, the writing is very odd. I'm sure some poor teenager will be forced to opine on why the book is written from Nan's point of view, even when she's describing her lover's feelings - as if she's the omnipotent narrator instead of one of the characters, but for the reader its very off-putting. I have to keep rereading to see who is taking and who they are talking about.

I wasn't enthralled but I kept plodding at it hoping it would get better - because I would love to read a story about where Agatha Christie was during those days (and why), but sadly that doesn't seem to be this book, which is more concerned with tawdry Nan.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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