{"product_id":"agatha-christie-at-home-9781914902000","title":"Agatha Christie at Home","description":"\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 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Otter-Barry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781914902000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192","brand":"Hilary Macaskill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43361563279541,"sku":"9781914902000","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7fce2b1f-3816-4487-a035-35f43bb0bcc7.jpg?v=1701192042","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/agatha-christie-at-home-9781914902000","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}