(Download [PDF]) Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman *ePub

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley."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