We realize we like Blanche more than Joan.ĭuring the five days Joan is stranded, she begins reconsidering her self-satisfied attitude, realizing some truths about herself and her family that she has hidden from herself. She also hints at something about Joan’s daughter Barbara. Blanche cheerfully admits her bad choices but says she has enjoyed her life.
Joan is judgmental toward Blanche, thinks she looks old and untidy and blames her appearance on the unfortunate choices she has made in life. Before this happens, there is a revealing encounter between her and an old school friend, Blanche Haggard.
Middle-aged Joan Scudamore gets stranded for several days at a guest house on her way from Baghdad to London.
Absent in the Spring, however, is a character study with an edge, reminding me more of some of the novels of Elizabeth Taylor. For some reason, I always thought that the novels Agatha Christie wrote as Mary Westmacott were romance novels.
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