{"product_id":"agatha-christie-at-home-hardcover","title":"Agatha Christie at Home - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHilary Macaskill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMathew Prichard\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Affair at Styles\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ethe Burgh Island Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, a major inspiration for \u003ci\u003eAnd Then There Were None \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEvil Under the Sun.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Macaskill\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and travel writer. She is co-author with Molly Wood of\u003ci\u003e Downhill All the Way: Walking with Donkeys on the Stevenson Trail \u003c\/i\u003e(Frances Lincoln, 2006), and has written, as well as \u003ci\u003eAgatha Christie at Home, Charles Dickens at Home\u003c\/i\u003e (Frances Lincoln, 2012), \u003ci\u003eDaphne du Maurier at Home\u003c\/i\u003e (Frances Lincoln, 2013) and\u003ci\u003e Virginia Woolf at Home\u003c\/i\u003e (Pimpernel Press, 2019). She lives in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMathew Prichard\u003c\/b\u003e is Agatha Christie's grandon.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9.38 x 7.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764978975008,"sku":"9781914902000","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7c3916943544a3ee96d0cf00470f1a07.webp?v=1780259340","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/agatha-christie-at-home-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}