However, I did find interesting the excerpt of “Snow Upon Desert”, the first novel written by Christie and never published (and maybe because of that), and I concede the citations can be useful for some readers to discover Agatha Christie’s books they didn’t know about before. I confess I skipped part of the excerpts cited.
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. The use of these primary sources would be enough for me to recommend this biography. 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. 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.
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