Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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If that's true, she was waiting for the perfect biographer to bring her back to life, and she has found her in Dr. 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.

It seems that male critics, directors, and reviewers were particularly hostile—how dare a mere woman be so successful and yet demand a private life? When Agatha is patronised by a chemist from whom she’s trying to learn about poisons, Worsley simply says: “Urgh”. I had read that her final novels revealed the possibility of dementia and this author repeats the reasons for this speculation.If that's true, she was waiting for the perfect biographer to bring her back to life, and she has found her in Dr Lucy Worsley. fail to realise what a total man-magnet she was in her youth', or, on Archie Christie, Agatha's first and unfaithful husband: 'He was incredibly hot'. In staging her life as the lady of the manor, Agatha was acting out a role just as so many of her characters did. Page 316: One of the advantages of being seventy is that you really don’t care any longer what anyone says about you. A superlative biography of the Queen of Crime from one of our most noted historians, Worsley's page-turning volume emphasises not just Christie's unique gifts as a storyteller but her pioneering qualities as a determined, successful and thoroughly modern woman.

I know that other books have been written about AC but am surprised that none have been produced recently and I hope that this regenerates interest in AC.She debunks many myths that surround Christie’s life placing things reported of her in the culture and context in which they were written.