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Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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In Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait, Dr Andrew Norman delves
deep into the crime writer's past to discover the desperate
insecurity that sparked her disappearance in 1926. Agatha Christie
suffered from recurrent nightmares where she was petrified that one
or other of her family would be replaced by a terrifying figure
called the 'Gunman' and lost to her forever. She was reminded of
this figure both when her father died, and when her husband Archie
demanded a divorce. This event precipitated such a crisis in
Agatha's mind that she became temporarily unhinged. She lost her
memory and assumed a new identity: that of her husband's mistress.
Only now, thirty years after Agatha's death, is it possible to
explain fully, in the light of scientific knowledge, her behaviour
during her troubled disappearance, when she lived incognito in a
Harrogate hotel. One of Agatha's novels, Unfinished Portrait, which
is largely autobiographical, gives a unique insight into how the
heroine, Celia (who is really Agatha in disguise), may have managed
finally to rid herself of the Gunman and go on to lead a happier
and more fulfilled life. By deciphering clues from this and her
other works, Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait sheds light on
what is perhaps the greatest mystery of all to be associated with
Agatha Christie, namely that of the person herself.
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