Agatha Christie

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' One brilliant woman writing about another: an irresistible combination. ' - Antonia Fraser' One of the most delightful biographies I have ever read. ' - A. N. Wilson' Reading Worsley is as enjoyable as reading Christie herself. ' - Ruth Scurr' Full of unique insight, eye opening detail, sharp analysis. . . Gripping. ' - Kate Williams' 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 wasn' t? 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 why - despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women could and couldn' t do. Lucy Worsley' s biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling 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 Worsley' s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.