A Daughter's a Daughter

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name = A Daughter's a Daughter
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition
author = Mary Westmacott (pseudonym of Agatha Christie)
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cover_artist = Not known
country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Tragedy
publisher = Heinemann
release_date = November 24 1952
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 200 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = NA
preceded_by = They Do It with Mirrors
followed_by = After the Funeral

"A Daughter's a Daughter" is a novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Heinemann on November 24, 1952. Initially not published in the US, it was later issued as a paperback by Dell Publishing in September 1963. It was the fifth of six novels Christie wrote under the nom-de-plume Mary Westmacott.

Initially a play written by Christie in the late 1930s, the plot tells of a daughter's opposition to her mother's plan to remarry.

Christie tried to interest Peter Saunders, later the producer of "The Mousetrap" in the play in 1950. He suggested amendments to update some of the references which were now twenty years old and tried the play out at the Theatre Royal, Bath where it opened on July 9, 1956 ["Book and Magazine Collector" Issue 174, September 1998 (Page 14)] and ran for one week and eight performances. It was billed under the "Westmacott" name but the true identity of the author slipped out resulting in good attendance figures. Saunders however felt that it would not survive in the West End and Christie didn't pursue the matter further. [Morgan, Janet. "Agatha Christie, A Biography". (Pages 286-7) Collins, 1984 ISBN 0-00-216330-6]

The text of the play has never been published.

Publication history

* 1952, Heinemann (London), November 24, 1952, Hardback, 200 pp
* 1963, Dell Books (New York), September 1963, Paperback, 191 pp
* 1972, Arbor House (New York), Hardback, 191 pp
* 1978, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 334 pp ISBN 0-70-890217-0
* 1986, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback

References

External links

* [http://us.agathachristie.com/site/find_a_story/stories/A_Daughters_A_Daughter_and_Other_Novels.php "A Daughter's a Daughter"] at the official Agatha Christie website