Agatha christie biography thompson

Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates.
A passionate and accomplished writer, Laura Thompson now turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to Agatha Christie.
This key statement comes at the center of Agatha Christie, A Mysterious Life, Laura Thompson's remarkable biography of the author.

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“And so the story endures, infinitely fascinating; and those who would lay it to rest, who would destroy its beauty by ‘solving’ it, are defeated at every turn.”

This key statement comes at the center of Agatha Christie, A Mysterious Life, Laura Thompson’s remarkable biography of the author, which was published last year and which I’m just getting around to. Biographies aren’t really my thing: they’re often either too sensationalist or so exhaustive as to be exhausting. Plus, I’ve run into a few situations where these books yield unwelcome information about much beloved luminaries that taints, sometimes significantly, future enjoyment of their work.

But this couldn’t happen with Christie, my favorite author, of whom I already thought I knew a great deal, despite the fact that her own autobiography is one of the great disappointments of my reading life. Not that it wasn’t perfectly charming; it was simply unforthcoming of all the information I craved – about her inspiration, her methods, her feelings for her writing. (I was young when I approached the book,

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Agatha Christie

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It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year--more than thirty years after her death--and it shows no signs of slowing.But who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally pleasing, puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably, her eleven-day disappearance in 1926.Agatha Christie is as mysterious as the stories she penned, and writing about her is a detection job in itself. With unprecedented access to all of Christie's letters, papers, and notebooks, as well as fresh and insightful interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relat

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In this biography of Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976), Laura Thompson gives us a detailed account of Christie’s life events and relationships with her family and friends – including the events about the 11 days of Christie’s disappearance -, but also with her publishers and what Christie thought about the adaptations of her works to theater or film.

The book shows a deep and well done research, with the author showing us excerpts from conversations she took with the family and those that knew Agatha Christie, as well as letters to and from Christie, which makes a valuable information to anyone who wants to know more about the context of the described events. The use of these primary sources would be enough for me to recommend this biography.

That being said, I did find Thompson relies too much in the Christie’s fictional books trying to connected them with real life events, which makes it a little bit difficult to go through the more than 500 pages. I