This chronological journey through Agatha Christie's life was one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. She would have been quite a person to have known. Her humble modesty is quite disarming.Īgatha Christie had an interesting and intriguing life, which is what keep me reading this rambling account. Towards the end she discusses her novels and the writing in more detail, especially when she started to write plays, and it was interesting to think that she didn't consider herself as talented as such or that she had a gift.
(very much a product of her class and era). She also did this later in the book as she also used French when in the Middle East and I found it disappointing that the publisher didn't endeavour to provide a translation of them as you miss some bits of pieces - or that it didn't occur to her that a reader would not know French. There are references to conversations and events written in French (as that was what they were spoken), which are not translated, as Agatha Christie lived in France for a time in her childhood so she could learn it fluently, and had a French companion/nanny as well. In fact her writing doesn't really get a mention until after the first 200 pages, after a rambling account of her childhood and the different places she stayed and things she did. She considered herself a 'married woman' first and foremost, which was very much a product of her era - being born in 1890. She didn't consider herself an author, she considered it just a sort of past-time which happened to make her money.
Her writing career is very much in the background of this autobiography, as she treated it so in her life. I had to keep reminding myself that she finished it in 1965, as there were many references to things that made me think: 'if only she knew how things were now'. It was less about her writing career and more about all the other interesting things she has done: served as a dispensing chemist during the first world war travelled extensively in the Middle East.Īgatha writes it in 1st person, and very much her own style. I am finally finished! This is a long read, a rambling look back over Agatha Christie's life.
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