‘Laura Thompson has certainly written the last word on Agatha Christie. 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. 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. For that, and for Laura Thompson’s new biography, we are all richer. In the end, Agatha Christie is portrayed here as a driven, at times vulnerable, woman who found what she wanted and needed to do with her life. It has been 100 years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. Thompson covers the disappearance uniquely, writing in a voice that Christie might have had while experiencing that strange time. is a pretty much perfect capturing of a life’ Kate Mosse, Book of the Year 2007 The author of the Somerset Maugham award-winning The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing, and the brilliant biography Life In A Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford, Laura Thompson turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie.
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