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Agatha Christie began to write this book in April 1950; she finished it some fifteen years later when she was 75 years old. Any book written over so long a period must contain certain repetitions and inconsistencies and these have been tidied up. Nothing of importance has been omitted, however: substantially, this is the autobiography as she would have wished it to appear.She ended it when she was 75 because, as she put it, ‘it seems the right moment to stop. Because, as far as life is concerned, that is all there is to say.’ The last ten years of her life saw some notable triumphs–the film of Murder on the Orient Express; the continued phenomenal run of The Mousetrap; sales of her books throughout the world growing massively year by year and in the United States taking the position at the top of the best-seller charts which had for long been hers as of right in Britain and the Commonwealth; her appointment in 1971 as a Dame of the British Empire. Yet these are no more than extra laurels for achievements that in her own mind were already behind her. In 1965 she could truthfully write...‘I am satisfied. I have done what I want to do.’Though this is an autobiography, beginning, as au

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Author

Agatha Christie; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062204578

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Art, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.34 / 5 (4,332 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14