But Clara and Agatha found a way forward and from the age of 15 Agatha boarded at a succession of pensions and took piano and singing lessons. There were more money worries and talk of selling Ashfield. Clara was distraught and Agatha became her mother’s closest companion. Her father, not well since the advent of financial difficulties, died after a series of heart attacks. When she was five, the family spent some time in France having rented out the family home of Ashfield to economise, and it was here with her “governess” Marie, that Agatha learnt her idiomatic but erratically spelt French. Agatha invented imaginary friends, played with her animals, attended dance classes and began writing poems when she was still a child. Recommend, but with that observation about it.Where did her creativity come from? She absorbed the children’s stories of the time - Edith Nesbit (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Railway Children) and Louisa M Alcott (Little Women) but also poetry and startling thrillers from America. Christie is always good, but this is one of the weaker ones, in my opinion.
He does figure it out, but the style is just so different, I felt some disappointment to miss the usual presentation. But this never turns out to be one of his classic mysteries, where he lines everyone up at the end, and reveals the murderer. Poirot happens to be visiting for lunch on the day of the murder, and arrives just seconds after it has occurred, and becomes involved for that reason. There are a lot of interactions between the characters, even (unusually) a fair amount of internal, private thoughts for some of them. There are a few other people: Midge, a cousin, Edward a son, David-who considers them all snobs, Henrietta, a sculptress, and a movie star who appears into the doctor's life after many years, and a couple of loyal servants. John Christow is doctor who brings his wife Gerta to a weekend party at the Angkatell's house.
He has taken a summer place near two houses where the main characters are staying. His role is very slight, and the book could easily have been written without him. This is one of Agatha Christie's books that features Hercule Poirot. Hugh Fraser excellent narrator for Agatha Christie
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