我看過一本阿加莎 克裏斯提的一本非推理小說，absent in the Spring. 當時她用了別的筆名。我非常i喜歡這部小說，雖然不夠抓人，但是是她最富有文學價值的作品。
我想知道這部小說在文學史上的地位，這是chatgpt給我的答案
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不，《Absent in Spring》並不是阿加莎·克裏斯蒂（Agatha Christie）的作品，而是帕特裏夏·海史密斯（Patricia Highsmith）創作的。雖然兩位作者都以其推理小說而聞名，但他們的寫作風格和主題有所不同。
阿加莎·克裏斯蒂是推理小說的巨匠，她的作品大多圍繞著複雜的謀殺案件和謎團，經典如《東方快車謀殺案》、《無人生還》等，故事通常充滿了緊張的情節、巧妙的推理和謎底的揭示。
而帕特裏夏·海史密斯則以心理懸疑和犯罪小說為主，她的作品通常更加注重人物的心理刻畫和道德模糊地帶，尤其擅長描寫罪犯的內心世界和人物的道德衝突。《Absent in Spring》是海史密斯的一部非典型作品，側重於人物內心的自我探索，而非傳統的懸疑推理。
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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.
