'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. Agatha Christie: An English Mystery is described as a ‘ perceptive and stylish biography ‘ on the jacket sleeve, but it is not just a biography it is also a study of Agatha Christie’s novels, drawing conclusions from her writing about her thoughts, feelings and emotions and a fictionalised version of Agatha’s disappearance in 1926. 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. Laura Thompson is an Agatha Christie biographer. It has been 100 years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. is a pretty much perfect capturing of a life' Kate Mosse, Book of the Year 2007 So far has she outstripped her contemporaries in. 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. She died more than 30 years ago, but she is still the world's most famous writer of detective fiction.
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