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<span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’ Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning.’</span><br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The title Endless Night was taken from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence and describes Christie’s favourite theme in the novel: a “twisted” character, who always chooses evil over good.</span><br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Christie finished Endless Night in six weeks, as opposed to the three-four months that most of her other novels took. Despite being in her seventies while writing it, she told an interviewer that being Michael, the twenty-something narrator, “wasn’t difficult. After all, you hear people like him talking all the time.”</span><br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The book is dedicated to Christie's relative "Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy's Acre." Gipsy's Acre was a field on the Welsh moors</span><br>