{"product_id":"agatha-christie-an-elusive-woman-9781639362523","title":"Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo why--despite all the evidence to the contrary--did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucy Worsley \u003c\/b\u003eOBE is Chief Curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces. She also presents history documentaries for the BBC. Her bestselling books include \u003ci\u003eQueen Victoria\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJane Austen at Home\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Art of the English Murder\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2019, her BBC One program \u003ci\u003eSuffragettes with Lucy Worsley \u003c\/i\u003ewon a BAFTA. She lives in England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pegasus Crime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604238307602,"sku":"9781639362523","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6e70c762-1f0c-4557-8f05-8f70dc7277b1.jpg?v=1732257427","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/agatha-christie-an-elusive-woman-9781639362523","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}