![]() And I read lots of British novels from the time period. I have been to England, and in the course of writing the novel I used lots of maps. The mistress herself felt like the best conduit to explore that.Īs an American author, how difficult was it to create English characters and set the novel in 1926 England? It speaks to the unintended intimacy between rivals. Archie Christie would go on to marry his mistress, so the two women would actually share a last name for the entirety of their lives. It goes back to my first answer - the overlap of names. Why did you choose to narrate the book from the point of view of Agatha Christie’s husband’s mistress? I wanted my novel to be purely speculative and fictional, without anyone else’s ideas interfering. I read one third of this, in which he details the search and newspaper reports of the disappearance, but I decided not to read his theory of what might actually have happened. ![]() There’s actually an excellent book by Jared Cade called Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days. ![]() What research did you do around Agatha Christie disappearance? The detail that most fascinated me was that she had registered under the last name of her husband’s mistress at the spa hotel where she was found after 11 days. I first learned about Agatha Christie’s disappearance in 2015, from an article by Matthew Thompson on The Lineup. ![]() Where did the idea for the novel come from? Author Nina de Gramont (Courtesy the publisher) ![]()
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