Which is your favourite Agatha Christie book? Certainly, she went on to even greater things after the marriage ended, which suggests she was better off without him. I don’t think he wanted to be eclipsed by his wife, and her star was so much on the rise. I don’t think they were right for each other, though they had a lot in common in terms of background and a love of travel.
What do you think about Agatha’s relationship with Archie?
I think they forge a bond in spite of, rather than because of this connection - though it is in ways a catalyst for them ending up on an adventure together. So, it feels like an accurate version of my alternate self!īoth Nan and Agatha are strong women, both love the same man. And although I don’t use it, Gessner is my husband’s last name.
Marina actually is my given name - Nina is a nickname. It was a story I was hired to write so I wanted to differentiate it from my other work. Why did you write some books under a pseudonym – Marina Gessner. 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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