{"id":17647,"date":"2022-09-09T12:26:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T10:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=215719"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:47:18","slug":"author-adventurer-archaeologist-agatha-christies-action-packed-life","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/author-adventurer-archaeologist-agatha-christies-action-packed-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Author, adventurer, archaeologist: Agatha Christie\u2019s action-packed life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lucy Worsley\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 09 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Agatha Christie is known as the queen of crime fiction. But, as Lucy Worsley reveals, her life contained almost as much drama and mystery as her novels. Speaking to Rhiannon Davies, she reveals how Agatha Christie<\/a> was a thoroughly modern woman for her time, and explains how her 80 books reflect the tumultuous transformations Britain went through during her lifetime.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/09\/HistoryExtra20220909-3d4fc06.mp3<\/a><\/audio>

Lucy Worsley is the author of Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman<\/em> (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n