Book Agatha Christie. Psychological novels (set of 4 books)
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Book 1: A Daughter is a Daughter
For the first time in Ukrainian! "Daughter is Daughter" is a psychological novel about the relationship between parents and children.
One of the six psychological novels "Daughter is a Daughter", the main characters of which are a daughter and a mother living in a destructive symbiosis.
Topic:
Relationships between parents and children, men and women, love.
About the book:
Two women long for love, attention and care, the love of a man, want to know life in its fullness, but their own complicated relationships prevent them from doing so. The daughter believes that she has the right to interfere in the personal life of her mother, who was widowed at an early age and is about to get married. The mother tries to avoid conflicts that make family life hell. The non-interference ethic of her friend, who is a well-known personality and psychologist, does not allow her to change the natural course of events until both women realise that they must take responsibility for their own actions and words. Who is really to blame for the fact that life is going wrong: the mother, the daughter, or...?
Who the book is for:
For those who love high-quality psychological literature, fans of Agatha Christie's work and her little-known works.
The highlight of the book:
• For the first time in Ukraine and in Ukrainian. Translated by the outstanding Ukrainian translator Yevhenia Kononenko.
• Permission to print in Ukraine was granted by Agatha Christie's grandson and his company @Agatha Cristie LTD.
• The author, who was used to being loved for her detective stories, was ashamed to openly sign books with her real name: she thought she would be condemned. And the works, according to critics, have more literary value than her works about crime. They are action-packed. Instructive. Those that interfere with the reader's personal life. If you get your hands on the book, you won't be able to put it down unread.
• Special design - one of the three books, a very nice cover in the style of Victorian wallpaper. The set of three novels is offered in a gift box.
For the first time in Ukrainian! "A Separation in Spring is a psychological novel about married life.
One of six psychological novels that Christie said she "wrote the way she wanted to write, and there is no greater pleasure for an artist than that."
Topic:
Relationships between men and women, love, separation.
About the book:
Lady Joan, the protagonist of the novel, is forced to be alone with her most intimate thoughts due to the unfavourable weather. On the edge of civilisation in an endless desert, she learns, as if on a retreat, about things she did not understand and did not want to understand, including herself. Rethinking her feelings and her own life, especially her relationships with her family, changes her attitude towards those around her and those who influenced the usual unhurried course of events that have been brought to mind. Lady Joan wanted to see an unknown distant world on this journey, to visit her daughter in Baghdad, to escape from her routine, but in the end, are the unexpected just unexpected, not a pattern?
Who the book is for:
For those who love high-quality psychological literature, fans of Agatha Christie's work and her little-known works.
The highlight of the book:
• The book is about each of us.
• For the first time in Ukraine and in Ukrainian. Translated by the outstanding Ukrainian translator Igor Astapenko.
• Permission to print in Ukraine was granted by Agatha Christie's grandson and his company @Agatha Cristie LTD.
• The author, who is used to being loved for her detective stories, was ashamed to openly sign books with her real name: she thought she would be condemned. And the works, according to critics, have more literary value than her works about crime. They are action-packed. Instructive. Those that interfere with the reader's personal life. If you get your hands on the book, you won't be able to put it down unread.
• Special design - one of the three books, a very nice cover in the style of Victorian wallpaper. The set of three novels is offered in a gift box.
«The Burden of Love» – the last masterpiece of this genre – presents us with the story of love in its deepest and most subtle manifestations: from all-consuming tenderness and care to blind self-sacrifice, from the inspiration to live to an unexpected force that can burn this life to ashes.
Laura Franklin seems to everyone a strange, incomprehensible child. Only her father's only friend, the wise Mr Baldock, understands how bitterly she suffers from a lack of parental attention. Jealousy of her newborn sister makes her want to get rid of the baby at any cost. She even asks God to take the child to Heaven. However, one fateful night everything changes dramatically. When Heaven's pleas seem to be heard, Laura rescues tiny Shirley from a fire at the risk of her own life. From that moment on, her being is filled with obsessive love, a passionate need to take care of her sister, even to the point of self-denial. She doesn't even notice when her excessive love and care become a burden for her loved one, destroying her fate.
So is it possible to live someone else's life? Is it possible to make others happy by enveloping them in a cocoon of well-being, fencing them off from their own, perhaps «wrong», desires? The writer with the insight of an ultra-subtle psychologist leads us to her own conclusions arising from the life collisions of her characters.
Book 4. A moment of a rose and a moment of a yew
Young Isabella Chartris would fit the definition of a mysterious Slavic soul if she were not an English aristocrat. On the eve of her wedding to her young and handsome cousin Rapert St Louis, she elopes with the ugly commoner John Gabriel, who refuses to give up his newly won seat in the British Parliament.
Is it really such a great love that brought these people together? No, the motivation of the characters is somewhat different. Not only the desire for wealth and high social status can be the driving force behind a person's actions. Sometimes the obsession with hatred and the desire to humiliate are much stronger. As well as an unconscious desire to deviate from the eternal path that was destined before birth.
After all, the motivation of human actions, sometimes incomprehensible and unpredictable, is perhaps the main theme of Mary Westmacott's novel A Moment of Rose and a Moment of Yew.