В книге, посвященной Агате Кристи, М. Вагонер писала о романах, опубликованных под псевдонимом Мэри Вестмакотт: «They represent interesting work, especially if they read in conjunction with «An Autobiography». In all six novels, Christie reveals her essentially romantic view of human
relationships. In the first three, «Gian’s Bread», «Unfinished Portrait», and «Absent in the Spring», she extensively uses the recollections of her own childhood and early womanhood recorded in «An Autobiography» [Wagoner, 1986, p. 110—111].
