Das unvollendete Porträt / Spätes Glück / Singendes Glas

by Mary Westmacott (Pseudonym), Agatha Christie

Contains:

Giant's Bread
Unfinished Portrait
Absent in the Spring

Love stories with a jagged edge.

Genres: Agatha Christie, Romance, Fiction

711 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Pseudonym used by Agatha Christie to write her dramatic novels about relationships.

Associated Names:
Мэри Вестмакотт (Russian)
Мері Вестмакотт (Ukrainian)

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this collection you can recognise different characteristics of Christie's main oeuvre, and indeed whole sections of recollections from her own life, particularly when reading Unfinished Portrait. I am currently reading Christie's autobiography and kept thinking "I have read this before!". However, a quick flick through a couple of her books reassured me I had not read her autobiography before and then just completely forgotten it!! They are all quite melancholic stories, no one seems to get a particularly happy ending. A great deal on the pain that love brings, rather than the joy.

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Christie's work as Westmacott is a delightful surprise.

[Pompski · Rating 4 out of 5]

In die erste Geschichte musste ich mich ziemlich lange reinlesen. Die war mir ein bisschen langatmig. Die anderen beiden haben mir allerdings sehr gut gefallen.

[Fiona · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this to be a bit dated. The story itself was about a rather naive girl and her journey to womanhood. Her eventual marriage to a cold, emotionless, selfish and manipulative man. Losing her grandmother then her mother left her rudderless and lonely. Then her husband wants a divorce which she eventually consents to. Tries to commit suicide and finally becomes free once her daughter marries. A strange ending rather unsatisfactory.