Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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So why – despite all the evidence to the contrary – did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? the narrative is buoyed by colourful details about Christie's fondness for surfing, fast cars and drinking glasses of neat cream. I think her reluctance to claim her rightful recognition has contributed to her relegation by the literature snobs to ‘merely' genre fiction. Page 120: A wise friend would have warned Agatha that when a man tells you he cannot be relied upon, there’s no reason not to believe him, and leave him. The bad ones have a Mad Libs quality: feeble prose studded with blank spots into which you can picture the prolific Christie plugging a random “BODY PART” or “WEAPON.

I am constantly amazed by how deftly she introduces her characters, how amusing her dialogue is, and how well structured her plots are. Contrary to her detective novel practice, which involved a long period of plotting, she wrote it all in a rush.Having read her books on Austen and Queen Victoria I knew this would be a well written, interesting, often lighthearted look at the life of an extraordinary woman. Drawing on personal letters and modern criticism, Worsley manages to make her subject feel fresh and new. In a 1971 study of English crime fiction, Colin Watson snickered that Christie “seems to have been well aware that intelligence and readership-potential are quite unrelated. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern.

Lucy Worsley OBE is Chief Curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces and also presents history documentaries for the BBC.I'd say that if you've read any other biography of Christie such as Laura Thompson's Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life, you won't learn anything new. Rising to become one of the most successful authors of all time, she was actually quite humble in her life. Page 300: Max once described his wife as combining ‘outer diffidence with a massive inner confidence’, and there are sometimes hints that her public ‘shyness’ was less a genuine character trait than a weapon.



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