"One brilliant woman writing about another: an irresistible combination." - Antonia Fraser"One of the most delightful biographies I have ever read." - A.N. Wilson"Reading Worsley is as enjoyable as reading Christie herself." - Ruth Scurr"Full of unique insight, eye opening detail, sharp analysis... Gripping." - Kate Williams "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? Parametre:
Autor:Worsley Lucy Rok vydania:2023 Vydavateľ:Hodder & Stoughton Počet strán:432 Väzba:Mäkká väzba / Paperback Jazyk:angličtina
