fail to realise what a total man-magnet she was in her youth', or, on Archie Christie, Agatha's first and unfaithful husband: 'He was incredibly hot'. Fairly interesting biography of Agatha Christie, though there wasn’t much I didn’t already know, and I felt not really enough about the books themselves. I will preface this review by stating I have not read other Agatha Christie biographies, nor have much prior knowledge about her as a person other than the sensational 1926 much talked about disappearance.

Having said that, I was interested in the author's life and her family and the book does give a good account of her life.The author has a lovely way to her writing that is soft and engaging so a reader feels as though they are part of a conversation. I had read that her final novels revealed the possibility of dementia and this author repeats the reasons for this speculation. Detective novels are games, and require a different method of evaluation (and construction) than works of capital-L Literature. Rising to become one of the most successful authors of all time, she was actually quite humble in her life.

Notebook 31, for example, has pages dated 1955,1965, then back to 1963, then ‘1965 Cont’ and then on to 1972.

In the film Agatha the eponymous heroine did not try to murder Nancy Neele — she meant to commit suicide and make it look it was Nancy Neele who killed her, thus causing her to hang for it. Her works have sold over 2 billion copies and her iconic detective characters have lasted the test of time. the author has a most engaging personality in her tv shows and it is also reflected in text as this is a worthwhile read. Page 120: A wise friend would have warned Agatha that when a man tells you he cannot be relied upon, there’s no reason not to believe him, and leave him.

Lucy Worsley, OBE (born 18 December 1973) is an English historian, author, curator, and television presenter. What makes this biography so fascinating is the way Worsley demonstrates how "everything Agatha experienced became copy". We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Janet Morgan’s official biography of 1984 and Laura Thompson’s equally detailed but ultimately more impressionistic portrait of 2007 have both been updated and reissued; and there are numerous other analyses that try to understand how the woman who routinely described herself as a housewife became Britain’s bestselling novelist of all time.What is not unexpected is the disdain levelled at her by male critics and directors*, who could not countenance a successful, forthright woman who enjoyed enormous, worldwide popularity for her writing. As a long-time fan of Lucy Worsley’s documentaries on the Tudors, Austen, mysteries, and romance novels, I squee-ed when I heard she was writing a biography of Christie. Page 136: The great injustice of Agatha Christie’s life was not that her husband betrayed her while she was mourning her mother.