Mark Aldridge

Yeah.

You said it feels like the most mainstream of the Mary Westmacott's to you.

It does feel like that to me.

It feels like the one that has got a sort of structure and a set of characters that I feel doesn't have to be Agatha Christie.

And I feel like with the other ones, the Mary Westmacott side of Agatha Christie, it had to be her writing it because it was a facet of who Agatha Christie was.

I think so.

And I think there's something just a bit more straightforward about a lot of it.

I was also saying to you that I feel a bit like if your publisher had gone to you and said, Absent in the Spring, we'd love it.

It's done really well critically, but maybe we could get the next one stocked in Tesco.

Like, could you just make it a little bit more mainstream, a little bit like more people are likely to want to read...

a slightly more plot-heavy, or a lot more plot-heavy story, frankly, compared to Epsom Spring, which is no criticism of Epsom Spring.

Absolutely.

So there is a sense to me, I don't think Agatha Christie has to be the person writing this book.

I think someone else could have written it, which, so far on our Westmopod journey, I don't think you could say of any of the other books, really.

Yeah, I think that's a really interesting perspective.

Do you know, it's funny because I did...

read it seeing if that was a reading when I was rereading at this time and I don't think so I don't think it is I think it is much sort of more complex than that because it's this whole thing about everything I see in the world is one way and he just doesn't fit into no but it's interesting isn't it because we made the comparison to Endless Night you could easily make John Gabriel more like Santonix and then have that kind of relationship if Hugh is our Mike and

I've got multiple.

The one I've got with me is the 70s one with the cheesy romantic cover.

Okay.