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The Christie Affair

By: Nina de Gramont
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
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A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and an instant New York Times best seller.

Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a stunning novel that reimagines the unexplained 11-day disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926 that captivated the world.

In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance.

I’m no Hercule Poirot.

I’m her husband’s mistress.

Agatha Christie’s world is one of glamorous society parties, country house weekends and growing literary fame.

Nan O’Dea’s world is something very different. Her attempts to escape a tough London upbringing during the Great War led to a life in Ireland marred by a hidden tragedy.

After fighting her way back to England, she’s set her sights on Agatha. Because Agatha Christie has something Nan wants. And it’s not just her husband.

Despite their differences, the two women will become the most unlikely of allies. And during the mysterious 11 days that Agatha goes missing, they will unravel a dark secret that only Nan holds the key to....

©2021 Nina de Gramont (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International Limited Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Mystery England Fiction

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Critic reviews

Nina De Gramont’s beautifully written imaginative history of Agatha Christie's disappearance plays out alongside a parallel murder mystery that could have flowed straight from the pen of the great AC herself. An inspired tapestry of fact and fiction places the story perfectly in its historical context. The result is a novel that literally out-Christies Agatha. An exciting, moving and delightful read (Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal)

I was enthralled, moved and entertained by The Christie Affair. This is a book which has it all - romance, enigma and wit in bucketloads. What's more, its devilishly good plot could out-do those written by Agatha Christie herself (Elizabeth Macneal, bestselling author of The Doll Factory and The Circus of Wonders)

Elegant, ingenious and hugely enjoyable, Nina de Gramont’s The Christie Affair is both an infamous mystery wonderfully explored, and a compelling story of love, adversity, determination and hope (AJ Pearce, bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird and Yours, Cheerfully)
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I love Agatha Christie stories and I’m very intrigued by Agatha’s disappearance and fugue state/amnesia. This story is a very credible version of what happened. I found it very entertaining and well narrated

What a novel idea for a story (excuse the pun)

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Such a great and captivating book, it gets you from the first page till the
End.

Excellent and captivating book

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Enjoyed the audio book very much. Highly recommend to others. Listened in one day it was that good.

Very enjoyable

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i just had to listen without stopping, took my interest. I had to cry and laught.

kept me interested

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Sorry - just didn’t work for me, though I admire the author for trying. More interesting reading the real account of Christie’s disappearance in Lucy Worsley’s excellent biog. I particularly found the Irish back story, laden with cliches of fierce nuns and babies taken at birth, and lost love at the time of the Great War, to be so numbingly box-tickingly disengaging, that I could barely muster the energy to listen. Things pick up when we get to Harrogate Spa (where in fact I live, and quite near the Swan hotel where Christie stayed in 1926). But overall the story, the characters and the general twaddle of it all left me cold. I’m sure others might get something out of the sheer fantasy of it all…

Lacklustre

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Overall I enjoyed it. Although the accents leave something to be desired, and kind of took me out of the story!
I also didn’t think the narrators voice quite worked - should have been written in 3rd person. However it has made me want to read some Agatha Christie!

Cheesy but enjoyable

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Good book but really difficult to listen to the butchering of the Irish accent. It was a good read, a bit slow at first but keep going and it gets better.

Awful Irish accent

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It’s a very good job you can’t libel the dead! I like historical fiction. I love clever authors who wind imaginative possibilities around real events. Here though the author has twisted and changed the characters in the real life Christie case so far they may as well have been fictional from the start. Tie that to a revenge story based on a group of very naive and tediously maternal girls in Ireland and I was left with the feeling that the only need for the Christie family was to give the book a marketing hook. As for the ending 🤬

Shoddy

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Loved this book. I love Agatha Christie books so thought this would be one even though it was about her. Instead it was a story of Ireland and terrible wrongs but told in a beautiful sad touching way. The story kept me engaged the entire way and I learned about history as well . 10/10 for me

Beautiful story

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Saw this book piled high in Waterstones and am intrigued like most about those 11 days of Agatha Christie’s disappearance. I like the mystery of never knowing really what happened and the conjecture of what goes with it.
This is an interesting listen and told in the first person (main character). The narrator is excellent and will look for further titles she’s written.
An excellent plot and ideas throughout- not wanting to give anything away.
Well worth your time.

It’s A Mystery

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