AGATHA CHRISTIE: A Very Elusive Woman.

UK,12mo p/back,illustrated,1st edn,3rd imp. [Complete number line 3,so 1st edn,3rd imp.] NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,wrap-around grey background with subject's colour portrait photograph illustrated front cover+spine,with author's capitalised, glossy,red-lettered name and capitalised,glossy,white-lettered part-title,and 5 critics' other white-lettered reviews al to front cover.Spine/backstrip concaved due to reading creases with repeated coloured+lettered author name and part-title as the front and publisher's capitalised,red-lettered part name and red illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear cover with author's glossy,colour portrait photograph and white-lettered critics' reviews.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edge bright,crisp and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips -has been thoughtfully and carefully read! The book is in excellent condition,pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. UK,12mo p/back,illustrated,1st edn,3rd imp,vii-xvipp+ 3-415pp [paginated] includes a Contents list/table,a Preface, Pts1-10 comprising 41 chapters in total,16pp of subject's contemporary biographical b/w photographs (the majority) and some biographical colour photographs,in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp128/29 and pp272/73 respectively,Sources, Acknowledgements,Notes,an Index,Picture Acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,subject's epigram,a genealogical family tree chart,individual Parts separator pages with subject's contemporary biographical photograph to each. Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife,when clearly she wasn't? 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.So why - despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling writer. It's also the story of a person who,despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen,Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **