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Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. I was born in Reading (not great, but it could have been Slough), studied Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford, and I've got a PhD in art history from the University of Sussex. It was the fact that she was shamed for her illness in the nation’s newspapers in such a public way that ever since people have suspected her of duplicity and lies. I've been dying to get my hands on this audio version of Lucy Worsley's latest in depth look into a famous female. Worsley offers close readings of Christie’s work and presents a careful reframe of the novelist’s famous 1926 disappearance.

A more inclusive definition of modernism might mean that you can also find it in works that don’t necessarily bludgeon you in the face with the shock of the new in the manner of Ulysses. Page 295: Perhaps Gregg’s real beef was that Agatha didn’t feel a strong need to be liked: as Cotes admitted, ‘she wished at all times to relieve herself of spare talk and theatrical chitter-chatter.

Worsley used correspondence and other materials to create a better picture incidents and events mentioned in the autobiography, while also providing context with information about historical sentiments of the period. However, the breadth of what Agatha Christie experienced in a lifetime was astonishing to me to see it all displayed. So why - despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?

the book is a model of how to combine biographical information, analysis and literary criticism into a propulsive narrative. Christie was not just a prolific author, but a trailblazer for women in literature and business, as well as in seeking psychological treatment and using psychology in her fiction. Drawing on personal letters and modern criticism, Worsley manages to make her subject feel fresh and new. La mejor biografía que se ha escrito sobre Agatha Christie, su vida personal, psicología, editorial, familiar y hasta sexual quedan al descubierto como nunca antes, y es posible, quizás por primera vez, verla como una mujer de su tiempo, más allá del icono literario en el que se ha convertido.I found this book to be an incredibly well written piece that gave me a terrific introductory education on Agatha Christie. Lucy Worsley's biography of Agatha Christie is as unputdownable as any of the novels by the Queen of Crime herself. Pages 327-8: In the last stages of Miss Marple’s life, once she’s detached from St Mary Mead, she develops more and more common ground with her creator: she travels to Barbados, as Agatha fif in 1956; she stays in a luxurious hotel (something Agatha had long enjoyed) and finally, in Nemesis, she becomes rich.

However if you're only even vaguely interested in the author herself you'll still find this book fascinating. Page 294: Suddenly, she explained, she was enjoying working on her play, ‘that wonderful moment in writing which does not usually last long, but which carries one on with a terrific verve as a large wave carries you to shore .Agatha Christie fans intrigued to learn where the queen of crime gained her real-life inspiration will enjoy Lucy Worsley's new biography. Having been a reader of Agatha Christie books for 50 years this book by Lucy Worsley was a must read for me.

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