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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 'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they
read her novels.' - The Times '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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