A Daughter’s a Daughter
Written by Agatha Christie
Narrated by Helen Longworth
3.5/5
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A classic novel of desire and jealousy.
Ann Prentice falls in love with Richard Cauldfield and hopes for new happiness. Her only child, Sarah, cannot contemplate the idea of her mother marrying again and wrecks any chance of her remarriage. Resentment and jealousy corrode their relationship as each seeks relief in different directions. Are mother and daughter destined to be enemies for life or will their underlying love for each other finally win through?
Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have now read five of Christie's six "Mary Westmacott" novels, and this one is the hardest to classify. This relationship of a grown mother and daughter is full of interesting insights. What challenges the reader is that, for every one of Christie's genuine insights into human nature, there is a cliche expressed as sheer truth. For every fascinating exploration of mother/daughter relations, there is an outrageously outdated summation of male/female relations. During the '30s and '40s, I believe the Westmacott identity was a true outlet for Christie, to allow her to discuss character and express sentiments in ways she could never do in her own career. Hence the first three Westmacott books are worthy reads, as long as you accept that they are striving to be truthful human stories rather than self-consciously "literature" (which they are not).
Still, even though I don't think this one matches those three, it is certainly better than "The Rose and the Yew Tree" and worth reading for fans of the author, perhaps because there seems like more of a genuine truth being explored here. The story flows very well, and I'm glad to have added it to my near-complete knowledge of the Christie canon. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An odd book. Not normal Christie. a "slog" some what.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I tried hard to finish this. It became so melodramatic in the middle and I realized I didn't care about the characters. I wasn't concerned with how they might make things work. I also couldn't see any "mystery" aspect to it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a novel that was originally published under Agatha Christie's pseudonym Mary Westmacott, this is a book full of tension and emotion. Set over 3 parts, spread over nearly 4 years, it is focused on the lives of Ann & Sarah Prentice. Ann is widowed and the book starts as Sarah, her only child, departs to Switzerland for a 3 week skiing holiday. At that she feels a pang of loneliness, which overwhelms her. During the 3 weeks, however, she meets a man and comes to fall in love. Only then does the trouble begin. Sarah returns and is not at all taken by her prospective step father. At the same time, Ann is less than impressed with Sarah's beau, and so the two are, unconsciously, echoing each others thoughts from different directions. Then the emotional games begin and the tension ramps up between them until a breaking point is reached. The subsequent 2 parts are set 2 and 3 years later and deal with the aftermath of the first part.The tale is facilitated by Ann's friend and Sarah's Godmother, Dame Laura, being some kind of therapist (exact details undisclosed) such that there is a sense of having a knowledge of what is to come. Laura's probing questions and probing allow the subconcious to be revealed by more than just interior monologue. This was really very good.