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AGATHA CHRISTIE - LUCY WORSLEY TASCHENBUCH

'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'   - THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE
YEAR    'A riveting portrait'   - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR    ***   'Worsley's sparkling
biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work  firmly busting the myth that she  or
her novels  were cosy.' Daily Mail    ' Every Christie fan should read this ' - The Times    '
Shows the Queen of Crime in a new light.' - Daily Telegraph     'Worsley's book excels in
bringing a broader historical perspective to Christie's life and work  and her enthusiasm is
infectious.' - Observer    '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.

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