During this time of loneliness, Agatha first showed signs of confusion. At the same time, she was left alone to deal with her young first born, Rosalind, which only added to her despair. Christie’s family home in Ashfield would have been filled with precious memories as Agatha often shared with the public what a gloriously rich childhood she had.įilled with grief, Agatha carried out her mother’s last wishes while Archie gallivanted. Her husband, Archie, who hated illness, had for all intents and purposes abandoned Agatha for London, leaving his wife alone to deal with her mother’s belongings. Agatha’s mother had died earlier that year and Agatha had been under tremendous personal strain. It was Decemwhen Agatha Christie went missing for 11 fateful days. From this angst came my novel, Silence and Circumstance, a fictional account of a very real event, published by Untreed Reads with representation from my agent, Malaga Baldi. “You are unworthy!”Īnd in my mind the response is…silence. “What gives you the right?” Finally it judges. And if that “other writer” happens to be the great Agatha Christie…it is the shriek of the banshee that is heard. Never does the blank slate cry out more agonizingly than when an author is about to embark on a tale about another writer.
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