Of course, this wouldnt be Agatha Christies story if she didnt share her writing life with us as well.

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Though she kept her private life a mystery, for some years Agatha had secretly written her autobiography, and when it was published after her death, millions of he.

Though she kept her private life a mystery, for some years Agatha had secretly written her autobiography, and when it was published after her death, millions of her fans agreed - this was her best story From early childhood at the end of the 19th century, through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan, this book reveals the true genius of her legendary success with real passion and openness.

I dont often read biographies or autobiographies, fearing they will be rather dry, spitting out one fact after another.

Not the case here.

Agatha Christie writes in a very conversational tone.

Indeed, on a day like today in New York, with the icy rain ringing against the siding and the roads as slick as a skating rink, I c.

Indeed, on a day like today in New York, with the icy rain ringing against the siding and the roads as slick as a skating rink, I could hug this book and imagine the Queen of Crime sitting opposite me with a pot of steaming tea between us.

Besides writing numerous detective and other novels, what a life this woman led I had no idea.

She endured two world wars, learning some nursing and dispensing skills along the way.

She loved bathing and swimming and even took up the hobby of surfing.

Not having ever picked up a surf board myself, the idea of Dame Agatha doing so just tickles me to no end She had such zest for life.

As I have said, I welcomed new ideas; in fact my motto might have been established by then as Try anything once.

Probably what I relished most about her reminiscences were her picturesque descriptions of her travels around the world.

She traveled rather extensively, in particular to the Middle East.

Her second husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist and having met him on a dig she later continued to accompany him quite often to other excavation sites in the region.

She occasionally recounted humorous anecdotes of the people she met on these trips, especially those from her own homeland.

I cant help but become a bit envious, a tad regretful even, that I have not experienced these same adventures tucked up here in my little corner of the world.

She preferred railway travel to most any other mode of transportation.

Ive never considered this, but I can certainly see her point.

To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers in fact, to see life.

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