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The Christie Affair

The Christie Affair

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The book overall was a delightful, wild ride with excellent character development and surprises along the way, and I am looking forward to reading it again. In Ireland, she meets and falls in love with Finbarr, a boy a few years older who helps out around her Uncle's farm.

This is historical fact, and The Christie Affair takes those facts and weaves a new story around them. Nan narrates the story and as she even says, “you may well wonder if you can believe what I tell you about things that occurred when I myself was not present. The story is very complex, it deviates and becomes scattergun taking a very meandering path and at times it’s hard to follow why we are where we are! I don’t like the narration much either or Nan for that matter and that gets muddling as Nan’s life before 1926 get intertwined with events of December 1926.

There’s only one “cold case” story in the entire Agatha Christie canon, and it’s the one Christie herself lived, not wrote. After finding Agatha and Finbarr at the manor house, Chilton permits Agatha a day before turning her in. If the course I’d planned so carefully was to continue, it was best to send him to her thinking of me.

Nan was raised in a working class family in England, and spent many summers with relatives in Ireland, working on their farm. The echo of this story is gonna reverberate in my mind for a long time to come, just because it gives a version of the story that heretofore have never been imagined. What happened to AC during this time is imagined by Nan O’Dea, Archie’s mistress, and the woman who caused it all. It takes over your body so completely, it’s like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche.

The Christie Affair is one part historical fiction, one part backwards mystery, and one part women’s fiction. A sponge soaked in quinine sulfate — procured by my married younger sister — stood guard inside me, protecting against pregnancy.

I do applaud the book for addressing problems faced by women of the time, many of whom had little control over their own lives. The story generally focuses on Nan, but it seems to switch perspective and POV in the same paragraphs where I had to keep rereading to determine if the author was telling the section from Agatha's or Nan's perspective. Told through the eyes of Agatha Christies’ husband’s mistress, a story of secrets, revenge, and lust emerges, resulting in a startling murder. For more than a week until she was discovered, ensconced in the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on Dec. The timeline shifts between the past and present with much of the past narrative focused on Nan’s story beginning from her early years with her family in England, summers spent in Ireland on her Uncle’s farm and her first love Finbarr Mahoney and gradually we are made aware of how her past ties in with her relationship with the Christies and the events unfolding in the present.In this story about love, revenge, and the past catching up to the present, The Christie Affair explores Nan’s story as it fictionalizes what could have happened during those fateful 11 days.



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