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AGATHA CHRISTIE - LUCY WORSLEY TASCHENBUCH

The Sunday Times -bestselling biography of Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by historian Lucy Worsley
OBE  host of Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder Club    THE PERFECT READ TO ACCOMPANY THE 50TH
ANNIVERSARY OF AGATHA CHRISTIE'S DEATH  THIS JANUARY 2026    '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.'   To Lucy Worsley  Agatha Christie
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 bestselling 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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