Giant’s Bread

Vernon Deyre has the talent of a serious composer, and the people closest to him pay for it. Raised in a house he loves and shielded from difficulty, he is unready for adult life when it arrives, and the two women attached to him absorb the consequences of a gift that will not share space with anything else. Agatha Christie wrote six novels of this kind away from her detective work, trading the puzzle for close attention to motive, obsession and what ambition costs the people around it. At a glance: • One of Christie's six novels written outside the crime genre • A musician whose genius overrides every other obligation • Two women whose lives are reshaped by his single-mindedness • A childhood home that shapes the man long after he leaves it For readers of literary fiction, Christie completists and anyone interested in her work beyond detection. Find it at Boipoka.