AGATHA CHRISTIE: A VERY ELUSIVE WOMAN (PB)

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie really was.