A review by cricketsclubhouse
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson

1.0

I read Christie’s autobiography, which I loved, and obviously I love her books. I wanted to read a biographer’s take on her life. But I had to put this one down. What bizarre writing. The author makes statements about Christie’s thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, and supports those statements with quotes from her novels. Kind of insulting to imply that she was only capable of conveying her own personal beliefs through her characters and not write, oh I don’t know, fiction?? In addition to this strange choice, the writing is rambling, pretentious, and disjointed. One thought in a sentence, then a completely different, unconnected statement in the next. Really strange.