![]() You should expect to receive your refund within 2 weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. ![]() We offer a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee so that you can always buy with confidence. We have been reading about a murder from the very start: everything that has gone before is a curious and unsettling account of a crime being committed.You may return any items within 30 days of delivery for an exchange or a full refund. We might not trust him any more, but there are a few chapters to go before we get the final revelation, and everything we have read is turned on its head. Cleverly, Christie still leaves open the possibility that Michael may be innocent. So when the (first) corpse appears, it is one of the least surprising things in the book – and something of a relief. If it’s a fairytale, we’re in the ever after – and it doesn’t seem happy. It also starts to feel increasingly relevant that the whole book is narrated in the past tense, and there is no sign of Ellie in the present. There is a sad moment late on, in which she expresses surprise to Michael that he is looking at her “as though you loved me”. Even his mother seems to loathe him and fears for Ellie, who also drops increasingly worrying hints about her concerns at his behaviour. But it is also the first sign of Michael’s strangeness, and the deeper we go, the odder he seems. Such a character was probably the sensible creation of an experienced 76-year-old author, who didn’t want to make a fool of herself in trying to present a 1960s hipster. Even Michael's mother seems to loathe him and fears for Ellie, who drops increasingly worrying hints about her concerns at his behaviour Life was good fun, and I’d been content to go on with life being fun …” But later he adds: “When youth begins to pass fun isn’t fun any longer.” Such reflections, as well as some frowning commentary on his contemporaries’ thoughts about sex, suggest that Michael is a young fogey. What he tells us of his roving existence before Ellie suggests he may be quite feckless: “Everything a bit hand to mouth, of course, but I put up with that. If there is anything nasty about Endless Night, it is Michael. The 21st-century temptation is to accuse Christie of racism – but she has a get-out clause, of a sort. ![]() It feels tacky – especially when the insults about Gypsies begin to mount up. When she appears on the scene she tells Ellie that Gipsy’s Acre is under a curse and warns her to “avoid danger”. There’s even an “old hag” – Mrs Lee, a Gypsy who feels she has some claim to “Gipsy’s Acre”, the location Michael and Ellie have chosen for their dream house. Who wouldn’t want to be catapulted into this world of the super-rich?Įspecially as presented here, as a way to escape from the world, to hole up with someone who loves you in a house you have designed by a genius architect. Christie is always good on the glamour of easy money. There’s something seductive about the idea of this young man with a head full of dreams who doesn’t want to follow the path laid out for him by his determinedly “respectable” working-class mother, and who manages to get what he wants by falling in love with a rich heiress. Superficially, Michael Rogers’ account of his marriage to Ellie Goodman sounds like a good situation.
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