![]() ![]() Then the return - and her submergence and denial of this latter day repentance. And she determines to change when once more back in England. One of the things I like most about traveling is the complete. ![]() ![]() More and more nerved up, she approaches realization that she'd never loved, or been loved, that she is frighteningly alone with herself. Rereading Absent in the Spring (Agatha Christie writing as Mary Westmacott). Read 586 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Involuntarily, she thinks back over the years - to disquieting episodes at the time dismissed and overridden by her self-satisfaction to the marriage to Rodney, who'd wanted to be a farmer, but whom (for his own good she felt) she forced into a law practice to the happy home she'd created for her children (who couldn't wait to leave it) to the reappearing presence of the woman next door, who died, and whose death she refused to connect with Rodney's breakdown. Psychological pirouette, which is slight - skilled - and engaging women's entertainment, in the self portrait of Joan Scudamore, competent, complacent, cold - and temporarily unsettled when the rains block her return from Baghdad and she is alone in a desert Rest House, discomfited by bad food, high heat and the monotony of waiting for a train. ![]()
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