Gramont is a competent writer and is able to capture a mood efficiently.įor starters, I do not understand the choice to go with a first-person perspective when so much of the novel consists of telling what other people are experiencing.

On the one hand, I can’t say I regret the experience of reading it. It has been an incredibly long time since I have felt this conflicted about a book. What drives someone to murder? What will someone do in the name of love? What kind of crime can someone never forgive? Nina de Gramont’s brilliant, unforgettable novel explores these questions and more. Then acts of unspeakable cruelty kept them separated. She and the man she loved were a star-crossed couple who were destined to be together––until the Great War, a pandemic, and shameful secrets tore them apart. It began decades before, in Ireland, when Nan was a young girl. Nan’s plot didn’t begin the day she met Archie and Agatha. Soon, Nan became Archie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him. In every way, she became a part of their life––first, both Christies. In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie.

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