Agatha Christie's An Autobiography: Book Club Guides

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This year we're exploring Agatha Christie's An Autobiography, and will be creating PDF guides for each part, every month for the rest of the year. Each guide includes summaries, themes, quotes and questions to help you get stuck in - whether you're running your own book club or exploring the autobiography in your own time!

Discover the free printable book club guides below.

Book Club Guide

Part I: Ashfield

In 1950 Agatha Christie describes the feeling of suddenly being overcome with the desire to write down her memories in an autobiography. This first part details her early childhood, living in Ashfield.

What I want is to plunge my hand into a lucky dip and come up with a handful of assorted memories
An Autobiography, Agatha Christie
Book Club Guide

Part II: Girls and Boys Come Out to Play

Agatha Christie's family let out their Ashfield home and staff and move around France and the Channel Islands to improve their finances, before returning to Torquay.

One cannot, ever, go back to the place which exists in memory. You would not see it with the same eyes
An Autobiography, Agatha Christie

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