The life of one of Britain's most famous authors, told through her magical secret garden and summer home
Agatha Christie is the worlds most successful crime writer. The creator of countless characters including Poriot and Miss Marple, her legendary career span more than sixty years and saw the sale of more than two million books. But behind her very public persona, lay a woman of mystery, like the complicated plots that she penned, Agatha's life followed an unpredictable course, that took her around the world on a journey, that encompassed love, failure, devotion, despair, and in a twist that could echo one of her novels, even a brief disappearance.
A fiercely private woman who has given few personal interviews, finding the real Agatha is a case perhaps probably best suited to one of her legendry sleuths. But were would they begin there investigation.
Maybe in the place that Agatha chose as her private hide-away, a house hidden from view on the banks of the river Dart in Devon, Agatha’s holiday home, Greenway. The world’s best selling author was a shy woman who shunned publicity and Greenway was her escape from the literary circus, a place to relax, and mull over her latest manuscript.
Five years ago the national trust was given the Greenway estate by Agatha's daughter Rosalind, and son in law Anthony Hicks, set like a jewel in 30 glorious acres, Greenway house has for many years, has been hidden by the public but as it opens it doors for the first time, what clues will this Georgian hideaway offer to those on the trail for the real Agatha Christie?