{"product_id":"agatha-christie-an-elusive-woman","title":"Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman","description":"A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley.\n\n\"Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.\"\n\nWhy 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.\n\nSo why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?\n\nShe 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.\n\nWith 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\u003eASIN: 1639365737\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1639365737.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Worsley, Lucy\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41472096370746,"sku":"DBV.1639365737.G","price":7.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1639365737-0.jpg?v=1781720687","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/agatha-christie-an-elusive-woman","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}