The Good WifeHe brooded over Ethel nagging about his lack of work and his sexual inadequacies. Despite the fact that she had stood by him (through a nearly 10 year separation, suffering known and continuing infidelities with prostitutes, and probably covering for him somewhat in the murders of Beryl and Geraldine Evans) Christie was sick of her..People wouldn’t say that to my face, I don’t think. But I have had the experience of people in their sixties and seventies, who haven’t read comics before, reading my book and being like ‘Now I’m reading other comics, too.’ My publisher’s mother is in her seventies, lives in Alberta, and she didn’t want to read my book at all at first, but now she’s getting all her old lady friends to read it.