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Agatha Christie at Home by Hilary Macaskill (2024, Hardcover)

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Agatha Christie at Home by Macaskill, Hilary [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPimpernel Press

ISBN-101914902009

ISBN-139781914902000

eBay Product ID (ePID)7061253083

Product Key Features

Edition3

Book TitleAgatha Christie at Home

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, History / General

Publication Year2024

IllustratorYes

GenreArchitecture, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorHilary Macaskill

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight26.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.8 in

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Reviews"Devotees of her mysteries will enjoy matching photos to aspects of the books with author Macaskill's help as a guide. Readers interested in literature and writing find a window onto the connection between biography--and with Christie particularly, place--and an author's books." -- Publishers Bookshelf "As much as being a record of the private life of Agatha Christie and her homes, Agatha Christie At Home is also a social history of England's middle bordering on upper class society in the period between the turn of the twentieth century until Dame Agatha Christie's death in 1976 - the details of this timeline, well written and absorbing." -- Sisters in Crime

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal823.912

Table Of ContentForeword by Mathew Prichard The Author The Houses - From Doll's House to Greenway The Households - Servants and Staff The Home Town - Torquay The Home County - From Dartmoor to the River Dart The Parish - Galmpton and Churston The House - Greenway and its Gardens The Legacy - The Tourism and the Brand Bibliography Further Information Index Acknowledgements

SynopsisThis new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill's classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world's bestselling author. Hilary 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 favorite 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). The 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 (mostly in the Middle East) that she traveled 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, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , and the Burgh Island Hotel, a major inspiration for And Then There Were None and Evil Under the Sun .

LC Classification NumberPR6005.H66