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No, I don't think I've seen the spring house.

No, no, because we're very much in the moment.

Unfinished portrait and this so far.

Three out of four is not bad.

But yeah, so it's, and you know, it's not unique to the Westman Cots, but it is something that is a hallmark maybe that helps us get closer to who she is.

There was a radio adaptation in 2020, but no other adaptations.

As yet.

I mean, it's mad.

It dispenses with that framing device, which I think gives a lot of propulsion to the novel, as it does with the other Westmacost that she does it for.

Jane Harden, yeah.

You just go, oh.

But that is the point that's still on the back cover of the modern version.

It is.

No, I mean, to be fair, that is one of Christie's skills.

Compressing huge, swathing events and times into pretty brief novels.

That's why I love Muriel Spark, for the same reason.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, and, well, Max Malamon, her husband, later said in his memoirs that The Rose and the Yew Tree, in his opinion, was the most powerful and dramatic of all the Westmacottes.

And he says, for me, this one is in the classical vein and will not be destined for oblivion.

And I think it's fair to say that modern thriller writer slash Poirot continuer Sophie Hanna...