{"product_id":"9781914902000-agatha-christie-at-home","title":"Agatha Christie at Home","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis revised edition of Hilary Macaskill's classic book offers an insight into the life and work of the world's bestselling author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A wonderful, inspirational and essential book for Christie-lovers.\" Lucy Worsley, author of \u003cem\u003eAgatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman \u003c\/em\u003e(Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton, 2022)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'My dear home, my nest, my house': these words from a 1958 song by Jules Bruyère, with which Agatha Christie opened her autobiography, sum up the importance of home to her. She also wrote: 'What I liked playing with as a child I have liked playing with later in life. Houses for instance.' She also lovingly included descriptions of houses (especially 'her' houses) in her books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant most to Agatha Christie, including her childhood home, Ashfield, in Torquay; Winterbrook in Oxfordshire, and, above all, Greenway, soaring above the River Dart and Agatha's favourite home from 1938 to the end of her life in 1976 (though requisitioned in the Second World War by the Admiralty, and from 1943 to 1945 home also to the United States Coast Guard).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author also explores more temporary abodes, not only a succession of flats and houses in London (mainly in Kensington and Chelsea) but also the homes she set up at the digs in the Middle East that she travelled to with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, and the hotels - notably the Moorland Hotel on Dartmoor, to which she adjourned in the grip of writer's block to complete her first detective novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Mysterious Affair at Styles\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Burgh Island Hotel, a major inspiration for \u003cem\u003eAnd Then There Were None\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEvil Under the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40965569216609,"sku":"9781914902000","price":29.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27040279.jpg?v=1721462488","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781914902000-agatha-christie-at-home","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}