![]() ![]() ![]() But, with access to all of Christie's letters, papers and writing notebooks, as well as interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind her private life as well. This rhapsodic biography is an account of Christies real life with passages from her fiction artfully interwoven, illustrating how the very private Christie really felt about things.'- 'Book Reporter' 'A splendid biography. In this biography, Laura Thompson describes the Edwardian world in which she grew up, explores the relationships she had, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the mysteries still surrounding Christie's life - including her disappearance in 1926.Īgatha Christie is a mystery and writing about her is a detection job in itself. 'A deep, reverential glide through the quiet life of one of the great writers of the 20th century. It has been 100 years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. is a pretty much perfect capturing of a life' - Kate Mosse ![]() 29th, 2011 at 6:26 PM I'm a bit just a bit of an Agatha Christie nut have been ever since I read Death on the Nile at the age of nine and got the murderer entirely wrong, and shortly afterwards when I read her Autobiography and found that she had imaginary friends, just like me. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'Laura Thompson's outstanding biography. The approach has persisted, from Gwen Robyns’s 1978 biography The Mystery of Agatha Christie to Laura Thompson’s 2007 work Agatha Christie: An English Mystery. Laura Thompson, Agatha Christie (2007) Sep. ![]()
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