Having read the novel by Brigitte Kernel, this one is also constructed around the story of Agatha Christie’s disappearance for ten days in 1926. There are two separate storylines here. In one, Agatha narrates her life with her husband, from their first meeting until the disappearance. In the other, an external narrator shows her husband’s point of view. Both storylines slowly bring us to the moment when Agatha is found hiding in Harrogate, having planned a diabolical scheme to force her husband to divulge his extramarital affair to the whole world. Once again, this novel portrays Agatha as a woman who has been troubled by life. It’s interesting to read another story about the same disappearance, which remains a mystery to this day.
“It had been one of the most illuminating afternoons I’d ever experienced, making clear that mankind’s evolution was very circuitous and not the linear path we’d once assumed. Perhaps this was mankind’s fate – to learn that none of our paths were as straight as we believed they would be.”