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Agatha Christie - Radio 4 Book of the Week (Hardcover)
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Agatha Christie - Radio 4 Book of the Week (Hardcover)
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'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'
- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN
BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** 'Christie lovers should read this biography
for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times 'A model of
how to combine biographical information, analysis and literary
criticism into a propulsive narrative' - Daily Telegraph 'Worsley's
book excels in bringing a broader historical perspective to
Christie's life and work, and her enthusiasm is infectious.' -
Observer Ms Worsley herself writes engagingly... She combines an
almost militant support for her subject with a considered analysis
of her books and plays.' - Economist 'Nobody in the world was more
inadequate to act the heroine than I was.' 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'. 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 an
internationally renowned bestselling writer. It's also the story of
a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an
astonishingly successful working woman. 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.
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