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The Burden

This novel explores the consequences of sacrificial love. An elder sister lavishes love on her younger sister and gives up her own life, but learns that no one can completely shield others from unhappiness.

Year: 1956
Location: Other

Cast of characters

Mr. Baldock, Ethel, Lady Muriel Fairborough, The Franklins: Angela, Arthur, Charles, Laura and Shirley, Henry Glyn-Edwards, Dr. Graves, Reverend Eustace Henson, Mr. Horder, Llewellyn Knox, Susan Lonsdale, Mrs. Rouse, Miss Weekes, Sir Richard Wilding

Publishing history

Publishing: First published by Heinemann in 1956 in London and by Dell in 1963 in New York. The novel has not been adapted for stage or screen.

Notes and reviews

The last of the romance novels written by Christie as Mary Westmacott

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