Agatha Christie : A Life Narrative

Abstract

Always dismissed as the “slow one” of the Miller family, she was an inarticulate child who liked keeping things to herself rather than airing her knowledge. “Agatha
doesn’t like parting with information” was the popular family joke (Autobiography 106). Agatha Christie’s early childhood was overshadowed by her brilliant, vivacious
sister Madge and her mother Clara, who had the gift of making even the most trivial things appear interesting, and whose “thoughts dart(ed) with the swiftness of swallows in flight” (Autobiography 19