Agatha Christie
- Author Lucy Worsley
- Narrator Lucy Worsley
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date 8 September 2022
- Run Time 13 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers.
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What to expect
The Sunday Times-bestselling biography of Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by historian Lucy Worsley OBE, host of Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder Club
THE PERFECT READ TO ACCOMPANY THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF AGATHA CHRISTIE'S DEATH, THIS JANUARY 2026
'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse' - THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'Worsley's sparkling biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work, firmly busting the myth that she, or her novels, were cosy' - DAILY MAIL
'Every Christie fan should read this' - THE TIMES
'Shows the Queen of Crime in a new light' - DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Worsley's book excels in bringing a broader historical perspective to Christie's life and work, and her enthusiasm is infectious' - OBSERVER
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'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.'
To Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie 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 bestselling 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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AGATHA CHRISTIE published as a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller in the w/c 2023-08-27.
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