我看过一本阿加莎 克里斯提的一本非推理小说，absent in the Spring. 当时她用了别的笔名。我非常i喜欢这部小说，虽然不够抓人，但是是她最富有文学价值的作品。
我想知道这部小说在文学史上的地位，这是chatgpt给我的答案
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不，《Absent in Spring》并不是阿加莎·克里斯蒂（Agatha Christie）的作品，而是帕特里夏·海史密斯（Patricia Highsmith）创作的。虽然两位作者都以其推理小说而闻名，但他们的写作风格和主题有所不同。
阿加莎·克里斯蒂是推理小说的巨匠，她的作品大多围绕着复杂的谋杀案件和谜团，经典如《东方快车谋杀案》、《无人生还》等，故事通常充满了紧张的情节、巧妙的推理和谜底的揭示。
而帕特里夏·海史密斯则以心理悬疑和犯罪小说为主，她的作品通常更加注重人物的心理刻画和道德模糊地带，尤其擅长描写罪犯的内心世界和人物的道德冲突。《Absent in Spring》是海史密斯的一部非典型作品，侧重于人物内心的自我探索，而非传统的悬疑推理。
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A striking novel of truth and soul-searching.
Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her…
Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.
