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Giant's Bread

by Agatha Christie

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Giant's Bread is a novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins in April 1930 and in the US by Doubleday later in the same year. The UK edition retailed for seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $1.00. The dust jacket of the first UK edition was by the artist Margaret Macadam. Giant's Bread is the first of six novels Christie published under the pen name "Mary Westmacott". The novel opens with the premiere of The Giant, a modern opera performed at the newly opened London National Opera House. The work divides its audience, but the critic Carl Bowerman recognizes its originality and concludes that its composer, known publicly as Boris Groen, must be English. He remarks that Groen is the natural successor to the composer Vernon Deyre, believed to have been killed during the First World War. Sebastian Levinne, the opera house's owner, declines to discuss Groen's identity. The narrative then recounts Vernon Deyre's life. Vernon grows up at Abbots Puisannts, his family's country estate, during the late Victorian period. His childhood is solitary and shaped by emotional distance within his family. He shows an early sensitivity...

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