UK Agatha Christie's An Autobiography: Book Club Guides
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.
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
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
Part III: Growing up
Agatha's sister Madge marries, and welcomes a son. Young Agatha discovers roller-skating and bathing, and attends formal school for the first time.
Bathing was one of the joys of my life, and has remained so almost until my present age
Part IV: Flirting, Courting, Banns Up, Marriage
Agatha Christie spends the winter in Cairo, entering the world of flirtation and marriage proposals. In this section, she also writes her very first story.
From that moment I was fired by the determination that I would write a detective story
