A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley.\
"Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was."\
Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was âjustâ an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasnât? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness.\
So whyâdespite all the evidence to the contraryâdid Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?\
She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldnât do. Lucy Worsleyâs biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman.\
With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsleyâs biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie wasâtruly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
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Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Author : Lucy Worsley
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2022-09-08
Number Of Pages : 432
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1529303885
ISBN-13 : 9781529303889
Item weight : 1.19 lb
Dimensions : 2.36 in x 6.06 in x 9.21 in
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