{"product_id":"agatha-christie","title":"Agatha Christie","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A riveting portrait'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Worsley's sparkling biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work, firmly busting the myth that she, or her novels, were cosy.' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eEvery Christie fan should read this'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Shows the Queen of Crime in a new light.' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Worsley's book excels in bringing a broader historical perspective to Christie's life and work, and her enthusiasm is infectious.' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45711022096620,"sku":"9781529303919","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529303919.jpg?v=1725969712","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/agatha-christie","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}