The Christie Affair Review

The Christie Affair

Nina de Gramont

If you know anything about the famed author Agatha Christie it’s that in her mid-30s, in the 1920s, she went missing for 11 days. She never said what happened and no one knows for sure. What we do know is that she went missing the same day her husband told her he was leaving her for his mistress.

What Nina de Gramont does is imagine what could have happened during those 11 days, but told from the mistress’s perspective.

She isn’t the first person to speculate what happened, but I do think this is the first time I’ve seen it with this twist. And although that is completely speculative (or just made up) what else is happening in the book is a type of historical fiction. I definitely learned something new about Ireland and England in the early 1900s.

I am: Entertained