Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley

I received an advance review copy for free thanks to NetGalley and Hodder & Stoughton and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Blurb

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.

My Opinion

Agatha Christie is an author that I have never really read – I should probably change that. I am not a fan of biographies so this is not a book I would usually have picked to read. Lucy Worsley has clearly done a lot of research for this book but for me there was too much information included. I really struggled to work my way through this book and had to listen to a few chapters at a time.

Rating 3/5

Overall 4.5*

An explorative and interesting book into the life and times of Mrs Christie which was very informative and made me want to reread some of her great stories again!

Thanks to Netgalley for the copy