![]() I would only recommend this to die-hard Christie fans, and I’m curious if any readers can recommend a better bio of this flawed but extremely entertaining and influential author. ![]() The author tries to imagine what might have been going on in Christie’s head and it makes about as much sense as anyone else’s guess. She also disappeared for two weeks, creating a real-life mystery and uproar. ![]() She went on a round-the-world tour with her first husband and learned to surf, and accompanied her second husband on his archeological digs in Egypt and the Middle East. ![]() In WWII she worked in a pharmacy and pestered her boss for information about poisons. In WWI she was a nurse who assisted with surgeries and became very matter-of-fact about cleaning up (including tossing amputated parts into the incinerator). Christie was in many ways very conventional in her attitudes and yet she did a lot of amazing things. However, this biography is quite comprehensive and weirdly addictive. The author sides with Christie on all fronts, minimizing her racism and anti-Semitism (as was typical of her era, Christie disliked Italians as well, which is also minimized) and justifying some of her more selfish actions. Several parts of the story are imagined in a dreamy, poetic manner. The Edwardian period is heavily sentimentalized. Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life is a relatively new release and yet it reads like a biography from the 1970’s or 1980’s. ![]()
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