agatha christie biography laura thompson

She either loved Archibald Christie until his/her death or she got over it. Thompson also does it regarding Christie's first marriage and her second marriage. Instead Thompson just brings up enough points on both sides to make you wonder about the relationship between mother and daughter. This book does not do much to answer those questions for me. Thompson makes comments making it seem as if Rosalind blamed Christie for leaving her father alone too much and also didn't much care for her second husband Max, however, at the same time she brings up how protective Rosalind was of Agatha. I was curious about Christie leaving her only child Rosalind behind so much. It seems ten times more interesting than this book. There are quotes from Christie's autobiography in this book which I wish I had just read. She does this repeatedly throughout the book and it gets old.

Once again she uses one of Christie's works as a way to diagnose her.

Money, indeed, is the real theme of the book.' Tuppence is a sunny-natured little pragmatist – as was Agatha, at times – with a childlike greed for both food and money. She especially loved her ex-VAD Tuppence, every bit Tommy’s match in courage and resourcefulness, although the feminist angle would not have occurred to her creator. The hero and heroine may send some readers for a metaphorical shotgun but Agatha’s delight in them is evident. 'The Secret Adversary had the quality peculiar to almost everything that Agatha ever wrote: readability. Thompson uses this as an example of Christie being okay with her marriage to her first husband Archibald Christie. At that age a man’s follies and sins are definitely behind him they are not – still to come. ‘Lady Mary, you wouldn’t like your girl to marry a man twice her own age,’ a character says to Egg’s mother. 'In her detective novel Three Act Tragedy she has the young ‘Egg’ Lytton-Gore in love with a much older man: ‘Girls were always attracted to middle-aged men with interesting pasts.’ The relationship is all about hero-worship on one side, youth-worship on the other, but this does not mean it would be more difficult to sustain than a marriage between apparent equals, or one that is apparently without illusions.

I wanted to know more about Christie, not Thompson's reading between the lines of all of Christie's works in order to show how Christie really feels about things. However, there seems to be a wall between Thompson and the reader. Thompson does tell Christie's life story from beginning (birth) to end (death). it's her fault he had an affair and left her) well then this book is for you. It was also repetitive as anything, if you want to read countless comments made about how Christie was beautiful once, got fat, and also left her first husband alone too much (i.e.

Agatha christie biography laura thompson