Authors: Agatha writing as Mary Westmacott Christie

Giant's Bread (44 page)

It was her sharp observations of people's ambitions, relationships and conflicts that added life and sparkle to her ingenious detective stories. When she turned this understanding of human nature away from the crime genre, writing anonymously as Mary Westmacott to prove to herself that her books could sell on merit rather than her fame alone, she created bittersweet novels, love stories with a jagged edge, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.

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THE MARY WESTMACOTT COLLECTION

Giant's Bread

Unfinished Portrait

Absent in the Spring

The Rose and the Yew Tree

A Daughter's a Daughter

The Burden

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1997, 2009

First published in Great Britain by Collins 1930

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