Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'
BOOKS OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES

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'Paint(s) an intriguing picture of Christie.' - Guardian

'Ms Worsley herself writes engagingly... She combines an almost militant support for her subject with a considered analysis of her books and plays.' - Economist

'Admirably scrupulous' - New York Times

'(An) authoritative and entertaining biography.' - Irish Independent

'Written with... Lucy Worsley's trademark wit and wisdom, Agatha Christie emerges from the page as a thoroughly modern woman' - Red

'Entertaining and authoritative, shining a light on just what an extraordinary pioneer Christie was.' - Belfast Telegraph


'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.'

A new and fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley.

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'. Her life was 'modern' too: 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 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.

Agatha's life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passion.

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.

(P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

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Lucy Worsley is Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces. Her biographies of Agatha Christie, Queen Victoria and Jane Austen were all Sunday Times bestsellers.. She presents BBC Radio 4's Lady Killers and her many TV documentaries include Lucy Worsley Investigates and Killing Sherlock.

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