By Mary Westmacott
While she is the most published of crime writers, Agatha Christie also wrote contemporary novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.Joan Scudamore is a wealthy solicitor's wife in 1930's UK, and is returning from a visit to her daughter who is living in Iraq. When her train home breaks down, Joan is stranded at a desert guest house for 4 days. During the forced furlough, she examines her life and gradually comes to some very different perspectives on how she has lived her life and related to others. She sees herself as a very selfish woman and vows to change - but will she be able to stick to her resolutions once she is back in familiar surroundings?
This is really a very sensitively-written story. Part of its charm is its setting in time and place. The reader will have mixed feelings about Joan.
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