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    Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman
    Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman
    Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman
    Audiobook13 hours

    Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

    Written by Lucy Worsley

    Narrated by Lucy Worsley

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    "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? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, 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 that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful 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 realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was-truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 8, 2022
    ISBN9798765071106
    Author

    Lucy Worsley

    Lucy Worsley is, by day, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that looks after The Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace State Apartments, the Banqueting House in Whitehall, and Kew Palace in Kew Gardens. By night, she is a writer and presenter, most recently author of the Cavalier: a Tale of Passion, Chivalry and Great Houses, described by the Mail on Sunday as 'a remarkable achievement by an immensely talented and innovative historian.'

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    • 4/5
      Very interesting to those interested in Christie or in life across the 20th century.

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    • 5/5
      Fantastic book! It makes it even better that the author read it because I absolutely love historian Lucy Worsley.

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    • 2/5
      Tried to listen, writing is fine but couldn’t take the overly dramatic narration.