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Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’ Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning.’ The title Endless Night was taken from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence and describes Christie’s favourite theme in the novel: a “twisted” character, who always chooses evil over good. Christie finished Endless Night in six weeks, as opposed to the three-four months that most of her other novels took. Despite being in her seventies while writing it, she told an interviewer that being Michael, the twenty-something narrator, “wasn’t difficult. After all, you hear people like him talking all the time.” The book is dedicated to Christie's relative "Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy's Acre." Gipsy's Acre was a field on the Welsh moors.
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Parte iniziale e centrale del libro veramente lente e pesanti.
Mi sarebbe piaciuto ci fosse un po' più di trama in mezzo e non solo avvisaglie sparse che comunque il lettore non può veramente capire ( la zingara era stata pagata da lui, ma non mi sembra che ci sia mai un segnale che lo faccia capire). Il finale tira su un po' la storia anche perché non avevo capito chi era l'assassino ma ho faticato per arrivarci.
Sarà anche uno dei lavori migliori di Agatha Christie ma io non sono riuscita proprio a farmelo piacere.
Il punto migliore del romanzo è il finale, ma per raggiungerlo bisogna affrontare un intero libro di noia assoluta.