Name: Agatha Christie (2022)
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Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2022, illustrated, index, 414 pages, 15.5 cms x 23.5 cms x 3.8 cms, condition: as new.

"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 just an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasnt? 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 whydespite all the evidence to the contrarydid 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 couldnt do. Lucy Worsleys 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 Worsleys biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie wastruly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

''This is how you write a biography! You can treat your "subject" with respect without whitewashing their actions/traits or "sterilising" them to boring non-humans. Lucy Worsley has done full justice to Agatha Christie, her life and her work. Loved that she presented AC and her times in 3D and did not pussyfoot around possible sensitive subjects (like Christie's appatent antisemitism in her novels even after WWII, her attitude to motherhood, or the weak quality of her later books)."

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