{"product_id":"eleven-days-by-laura-thompson","title":"Eleven Days by Laura Thompson","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA unique approach to understanding Agatha Christie’s infamous eleven-day disappearance, from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of the Edgar-nominated\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgatha Christie.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn December of 1926, Agatha Christie, the world’s most famous mystery author, vanished. Eleven days later, after frenzied media speculation, she was discovered alive and well. Claiming to have lost her memory, she refused to speak publicly about her disappearance, and even today, there are questions that have never been answered. The book will seek to penetrate the blank space in Christie’s long and brilliant life, which leaves her ever more emblematic of the genre that she defines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleven Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an examination of a myth, of a Christie mystery that has remained unsolved for a century. In a new approach, Laura Thompson undertakes a re-enactment of Christie’s movements based on her own conversations with people close to Christie: notably, her interviews with Christie’s only child, her daughter Rosalind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThompson explores all theories and aspects of Christie’s disappearance, as well as the notion of disappearance\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ein itself\u003c\/i\u003e: how it might feel to wander like a ghost through one’s own life, to be oneself yet without identity\u003ci\u003e.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWhat sort of person has the capacity to disappear? Many of us may have longed to do so, but actually to go through with it? What courage or daring does it take, what desperation or deviousness? How was Agatha Christie changed by it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleven Days\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003edelves into these questions and more, and delivers the final word on the greatest mystery ever created by the greatest writer of mysteries.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46135137697965,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0577\/3364\/4461\/files\/9781250461261_0486c.jpg?v=1781810282","url":"https:\/\/underbrushbooks.com\/products\/eleven-days-by-laura-thompson","provider":"Underbrush Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}