Giant's Bread

Written by Agatha Christie under the name Mary Westmacott, this ambitious novel abandons detection for the making of a composer, tracing genius, love and sacrifice across a life devoted to music.

At a glance A boy haunted by music grows into a man who will sacrifice almost everything, and almost… What it's about Giant's Bread is the first novel Agatha Christie published under her… It follows the life of a gifted composer from childhood through war and love and… Themes The book explores the price of artistic genius, the tension between love and…

Giant's Bread is the first novel Agatha Christie published under her pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and it has nothing to do with murder.

About this book A standalone Christie novel of ambition, art, love, and inner conflict, showing a different register from her detective fiction.