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“Unfinished Portrait” Agatha Christie (1962) Review | Christie without mystery


Unfinished Portrait
Agatha Christie, 1962
UK
Read in 2022.05
check synopsis and details on amazon.com


✔ Written under her pseudonym, Mary Westmacott.
✔ Female struggle as a mother
✔ Less famous side of Agatha Christie


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★☆ Her wish to go outside, into the unknown world - that's something she must suppress because she's a wife, a mother. A wonderful storytelling, a story of her mind, by one of the greatest.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
Agatha Christy that doesn't involve murders or crimes - in fact she used her pseudonym, Mary Westmacott.

The book is about about the inner emotions of the sensitive protagonist who is now thinking to commit suicide.
After a happy childhood with her family, she was supposed to have a happy family life with her husband.
Her wish to go outside, into the unknown world - that's something she must suppress because she's a wife, a mother.

A wonderful storytelling, a story of her mind, by one of the greatest.
🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Unfinished Portrait


●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Unfinished Portrait

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Ritratto incompiuto (italiano)