The Burden

It’s the sixth and final Mary Westmacott novel: The Burden. (But not the final Westmapod episode, so stay subscribed!)

Join Gray and Mark as they unburden themselves of their thoughts about the experience of reading this startling hidden gem of a novel! What a way to close out a run of exceptional writing from Mary Westmacott, aka Agatha Christie.

We’re not done yet! We’ll be reconvening for a special Reflections episode where we’ll be taking stock of all six books and reading and responding to our listener messages. So do get in touch ahead of our Reflections episode, which will drop in due course... 

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00:00:00 - Opening titles

00:01:11 - Introductory chat

00:03:34 - The Burden

00:04:02 - The context of The Burden

00:21:45 - The structure of The Burden

00:33:55 - Autobiographical elements

00:52:16 - Laura’s story

01:04:57 - Llewwelyn’s story

01:13:33 - If you liked this, try that

01:18:11 - Next episode, how to get in touch, closing titles

01:21:10 - Coda