The conclusion to the story is as unexpected as it is truthful. She returns to England, determined to change her attitude to love and married life. She begins to put together a picture of her life that both frightens and appalls her in equal measure. The barren heat of the desert is contrasted against the lush greenery of her West Country home as she digs deeper into her emotional memories and uncovers incidents that have lain buried in her psyche for many years. The sudden solitude compels her to look back over her married life in rural England. Absent In The Spring by Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie (UK) Mary Westmacott Novel 1944 Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. Set in 1934, it is the story of a woman, Joan Scudamore, who unexpectedly becomes stranded in a Mesopotamian way station when returning from a visit to her daughter in Baghdad. The music was by Nick Bicât, and Leon Chambers was the sound designer. The adaptation is a Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4, adapted by Malcolm McKay and directed by Catherine Bailey. It was first broadcast on 31 August 2020. Agatha Christie's Absent in the Spring is a 2020 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the Mary Westmacott novel Absent in the Spring.
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